Social Europe

Ukraine and Moldova to test new accession process

Nora Siklodi and Nándor Révész

Ukraine and Moldova have taken a huge step towards European Union membership but hazards lie ahead.

Italy, Albania, asylum and ‘European values’

Albania’s agreement to process offshore asylum-seekers heading for Italy, Lily Lynch writes, is not a good look.

Is Germany going authoritarian-left?

Flora Baumgartner

Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.

COP28 must focus on the climate-fuelled health crisis

Marina Romanello

The data show we are heading toward catastrophe, yet world leaders refuse to recognise the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels.

Prioritising profits over Europe’s childcare

Chloe Kenny and Pablo Sanchez Centellas

As in adult long-term care, corporations are accruing rents from publicly funded childcare, exploiting workers and children.

Ensuring a just Europe for all children

Daniel Molinuevo

More children are at risk of poverty than before the pandemic—early childhood education and care is critical.

How the war in Ukraine has transformed the EU

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a profound effect on the European Union, whose response is defining its trajectory.

COP28: the loss-and-damage fund

A year on from the breakthrough on climate-change funding, poor countries eye disappointment at the Dubai summit.

Israel-Palestine: what kind of solidarity?

The imperative of solidarity is with all those Jews and Palestinians who seek the solution neither Hamas nor Netanyahu wants.

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 webinar: Bridging the rural–urban divide in Europe—upgrading the European Union convergence machine

Eurofound is organising a live interactive webinar on bridging the rural-urban divide in Europe, with a Q&A on Wednesday, November 29th 2023.

Massimiliano Mascherini, head of social policies at Eurofound, will present the latest research findings on the differences in social, political, cultural, economic and living conditions between rural and urban areas and consider whether such differences may pose a threat to social cohesion in Europe. Michèle Lamont, professor of sociology at Harvard University, will provide her views and insights into the recognition factor and how that plays out. The debate will be moderated by Mary McCaughey, head of information and communication at Eurofound.

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Transforming capitalism in the age of AI

Will the EU once again accept Big Tech's power as a fait accompli while belatedly trying to mitigate risks, or can it chart a different course?

Join our conference ‘Transforming capitalism in the age of AI’ on Wednesday, December 6th. FEPS and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung are co-organising an evening of debates on the digital future of Europe, with keynotes by Evgeny Morozov, founder of The Syllabus, and Phoebe V Moore, the globally recognised expert on digitalisation and the workplace. The event will be moderated by John Thornhill, innovation editor at the Financial Times.

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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