This volume is the 20th anniversary edition of Social policy in the EU: state of play. Coordinated by Cécile Barbier and Philippe Pochet, the first edition covered the year 1999 and was published as a collaborative project between the European Social Observatory (OSE) and the European Trade Union... Find out more

Equality for men and women in the workplace has been one of the longest standing aims of European social policy. Forty years after the adoption of the first Directive, and in spite of numerous initiatives by the European Union, there is still a long way to go to achieve full gender equality in the... Find out more

In this special report, the European Trade Union Institute looks to identify the main factors that are undermining occupational health services in Europe: shortage of specialists, overwork that undermines the quality of services, loss of direct contact with actual working conditions, feeling of... Find out more

Widening economic and social gaps among EU member states, as well as among different groups and categories of citizens within society, are not only placing in jeopardy the future of Social Europe but threatening to undermine also the whole project of European integration. The post-2008 recession and... Find out more

Whatever lip-service may be paid to sustainable consuming, by far most European consumers still do their weekly shop in the big supermarket chains. A handful of groups have carved up this lucrative market and grown so powerful as to be able to drive producers’ selling prices steadily down. This is... Find out more

This working paper analyzes the data collected by the fifth European Working Conditions Survey done in 2010 to examine how working conditions are changing for different ages and occupation types. It brings insights into the quality of work and employment amongst ageing workers that help to inform... Find out more

This report highlights the discriminatory impact on women of the system for the declaration and recognition of occupational diseases in Belgium. There is one striking statistic: women represent less than 10% of recognised cases of occupational diseases. "The list of diseases recognised corresponds... Find out more

The whole of Europe, indeed much of the world, is anxiously watching as the Greek drama unfolds. Discussions of the various austerity measures are usually couched in terms of whether they can actually be implemented by the government, or whether they will be sufficient to achieve given budgetary... Find out more

In this ETUI Policy Brief Rory O’Farrell looks at some of the mechanisms linking inequality and the health of the economy and reviews the evidence on how various inequality measures have changed during the crisis. He warns about measures in the context of austerity programmes that will serve to... Find out more

2010 was a critical year for the European Union (EU) in at least three major respects. First of all, many EU countries started showing signs of increased financial stress, while the eurozone began to be affected by a true debt crisis extending well beyond the highly publicised case of Greece... Find out more