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Platform work directive—delivering rights for allEconomy

Platform work directive—delivering rights for all

Ludovic Voet

Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.

Gaza: status of UN Security Council ceasefire demandPolitics

Gaza: status of UN Security Council ceasefire demand

Amanda Cahill-Ripley

Is the security council ‘demand’ for a ceasefire legally binding? Here is what international law says.

Women at work: doing different jobs, still unequalEconomy

Women at work: doing different jobs, still unequal

Wouter Zwysen

Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.

The missing migrants: myriad preventable deathsPolitics

The missing migrants: myriad preventable deaths

Ugochi Daniels

People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.

Women leaders in CSOs—overworked, overwhelmedSociety

Women leaders in CSOs—overworked, overwhelmed

Eloïse Bodin

Fundamental change is needed as many women near burnout, amid mounting social challenges and work-life imbalance.

No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponedEcology

No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed

Pascoe Sabido

The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.

Gaza: a population being starved into submissionPolitics

Gaza: a population being starved into submission

Nnenna Awah

With access to food aid denied by Israel, two-thirds of a million Gazans already face ‘catastrophe’.

Universal basic services: road to a just transitionSociety

Universal basic services: road to a just transition

Robbie Stakelum and Katy Wiese

Meeting social needs within planetary boundaries is the alternative to the religion of growth and the populist backlash.

Hungary’s unedifying political wordplaysPolitics

Hungary’s unedifying political wordplays

Eszter Kováts

The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.

Establishing safe staffing in health and social careSociety

Establishing safe staffing in health and social care

Jan Willem Goudriaan and Adam Rogalewski

Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.

Gaza: UN humanitarian intervention neededPolitics

Gaza: UN humanitarian intervention needed

Luke Cooper, Mary Kaldor and Marika Theros

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.

How to treat German democracy’s malaisePolitics

How to treat German democracy’s malaise

Johanna Lutz, Ludwig List and Filip Milačić

The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.

Living conditions: Germany outperforms the USSociety

Living conditions: Germany outperforms the US

Jan Priewe

Gross domestic product is often presented as encapsulating US success. But on broader benchmarks Germany performs better.

Beyond just transition—ecology at workEcology

Beyond just transition—ecology at work

Philippe Askenazy and Claude Didry

The economic transformation required by ecological crises implies new capabilities for workers to develop alternative plans.

Renewing the welfare state, Europe’s green trump cardEcology

Renewing the welfare state, Europe’s green trump card

Philippe Pochet and Taube Van Melkebeke

The untapped potential of European welfare states must be unleashed in light of the climate emergency.

Reset finance: a new financial agenda for the EUEcology

Reset finance: a new financial agenda for the EU

Aurora Li, Michael Peters and Uwe Zöllner

In the next mandate, the EU needs to set clear rules for private investment in the green transition, to avoid past mistakes.

Renovating buildings while leaving no one behindEcology

Renovating buildings while leaving no one behind

Eva Brardinelli

Europe has a leaky buildings stock but the revised directive on their energy performance will still leave some in the cold.

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How to improve gender equality in the world of work?

Despite gender equality being a core principle of the European Union, women are less likely to be in employment than men in all EU member states and are paid less than men in almost every member state, with the pay gap larger in higher paying jobs.

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The Progressive Yearbook, now available!

With its fifth edition, the Progressive Yearbook can be considered an established and thriving tradition, through which FEPS wishes to reflect on the most important developments of the previous year and to try to imagine what the future has in store for 2024.

With this new volume, we prepare ourselves for a transformative year marked by pivotal elections. We cast a spotlight on the 2024 European Parliament elections and extend our attention to the broader political landscape. Reform of the EU treaties, enlargement, the twin transition and international developments are some of the topics of this year’s edition.

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Comparing living and working conditions: Germany out-performs the United States

This paper compares living and working conditions in the US and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic, social and environmental standards. Emphasis is also placed on income and wealth inequality.

Twelve dimensions of comparison are used, split into 15 themes, examined with 80 indicators. Germany comes out ahead on 10 of the themes. When the relative sizes of the gaps are also taken into account, Germany gets an overall score of 23 and the US only 6.

This paper is, to the knowledge of the author, the only comprehensive comparison of living conditions in the US and Germany. The framing of the comparison is the analysis of two different types of capitalism. It underlines the limited role of per capita gross domestic product in the living conditions of the majority of the population while highlighting the impact of institutions and the type of welfare state.


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Benchmarking Working Europe: the ongoing quest for Social Europe

Given the political significance of this European election year, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) decided in their annual Benchmarking Working Europe report to provide a retrospective assessment of the state of Social Europe. Using fact-based evidence and analysis, this edition demonstrates that the new impetus for Social Europe of the past five years has led to important and long-awaited policy initiatives, including on minimum wages, platform work and corporate due diligence. Progress however remains fragile and fragmented.


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It‘s all about jobs: investing in Europe’s workers and qualifications for a competitive clean economy

An ecological miracle on the labour market? Or rather job losses? The impact on employment and job profiles in Europe of ecological modernisation is a question driving politics and society.

We have taken a close look at studies and forecasts on the development of the European labour market. One thing is clear: without qualified and motivated workers, the economy will not flourish and the modernisation process will come to a standstill. Europe must deliver on a massive scale in the coming years to remain at the forefront.

We spoke to trade unionists and experts: what trends do we need to shape, what risks do we need to avoid, what course do we need to set now? Key findings in this study from FES Just Climate.


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