Social Europe

Vienna social-housing model: celebrated but misused

The ‘Vienna model’ has been distorted to embrace private investment but its real redefinition should be ecological.

Social democracy versus the nativist right

If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.

Which comes first—Big Toxics’ profits or health?

Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.

Ukraine: journalists in Russia’s sights

Kelly Bjorkland and Simon Smith

Reports suggest that Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine—which is a war crime.

EU enlargement—back to the future

Emilija Tudzarovska

How the European Union failed to deal with the collapse of Yugoslavia has lessons for the imperative of enlargement today.

Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?

Philip Freeman and Jan Willem Goudriaan

The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.

Non-EU migrant workers—the ties that bind

The European Union stands at a fork in the road when it comes to its treatment of external migrant workers.

How the ECB’s ‘deposit facility’ subsidises banks

David Hollanders

Banks profit from the European Central Bank´s interest-rate policy at the expense of taxpayers.

All work and low pay—Europe’s migrant workforce

To really end labour shortages, Ankita Anand writes, Europe must transform its contract with the global south.

The summer issue of the Progressive Post magazine by FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to the importance of biodiversity, not only as a good in itself but also for the very existence of humankind. We need a paradigm change in the mostly utilitarian relation humans have with nature.

In this issue, we also look at the hazards of unregulated artificial intelligence, explore the shortcomings of the EU's approach to migration and asylum management, and analyse the social downside of the EU's current ethnically-focused Roma policy.

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2022 / 2023

With real wages falling by 4 per cent in 2022, workers in the European Union suffered an unprecedented loss in purchasing power. The reason for this was the rapid increase in consumer prices, behind which nominal wage growth fell significantly. Meanwhile, inflation is no longer driven by energy import prices, but by domestic factors. The increased profit margins of companies are a major reason for persistent inflation. In this difficult environment, trade unions are faced with the challenge of securing real wages—and companies have the responsibility of making their contribution to returning to the path of political stability by reducing excess profits.

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The future of remote work

The 12 chapters collected in this volume provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the impact and the future trajectories of remote work, from the nexus between the location from where work is performed and how it is performed to how remote locations may affect the way work is managed and organised, as well as the applicability of existing legislation. Additional questions concern remote work’s environmental and social impact and the rapidly changing nature of the relationship between work and life.

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Eurofound Talks: housing

In this episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound’s senior research manager, Hans Dubois, about the issues that feed into housing insecurity in Europe and the actions that need to be taken to address them. Together, they analyse findings from Eurofound’s recent Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe report, which presents data from Eurofound’s Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions and input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents on various indicators of housing security and living conditions.

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