EU concerned by Ukraine’s controversial labour reforms
The European Union says Ukraine’s reforms must follow international labour standards and social-dialogue principles.
politics, economy and employment & labour
SocietyKateryna Semchuk and Thomas Rowley
The European Union says Ukraine’s reforms must follow international labour standards and social-dialogue principles.
SocietyThe huge demonstrations against the pension ‘reform’ stem from accumulating resentment under Emmanuel Macron.
EconomyIsabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu
Glancing across the Atlantic, austerity and deregulation will make Europe neither competitive nor green.
EconomyEU institutions have taken a position weakening international standards and risking bank stability.
PoliticsSome activist-scholars, Eszter Kováts writes, have turned social justice into a latter-day religion, with perverse effects.
SocietyTraining the workforce is central to attracting and retaining staff in quality social care.
PoliticsOver 12 months of conflict, the Kremlin has relied on its tried and tested disinformation playbook.
PoliticsThe EU must not only ensure that Ukraine can attain a just and lasting peace but support the embedding of universal norms.
SocietyMaurizia Mezza and Stuart Blume
Rapid deployment of vaccines is the key lesson being taken from the Covid-19 pandemic. It should not be the only one.
EconomyWhether the presumption of employment would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate.
SocietyThe European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making.
PoliticsHow can a civilian power such as the EU, Jan Zielonka asks, contend with uncivilised behaviour?
PoliticsThe measures taken by the EU on asylum should be guided by a lawful and sincere humanitarianism.
PoliticsThe warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.
PoliticsExiled trade unionists continue their work, hoping to return to Belarus one day to rebuild their society.
SocietyBuilders had been allowed to pay a ‘construction amnesty’ for breaches of tighter codes introduced after the 1999 earthquake.
PoliticsThe world’s largest companies cannot be given free rein in their competition to capitalise artificial intelligence.
PoliticsThe west’s lack of engagement with Africa in recent years left behind a vacuum China and Russia have eagerly filled.
PoliticsAlmost a year into the war in Ukraine, Russians seem to be seeking ways to distance themselves from the state.
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