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Aida Ponce Del Castillo is a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute.

The Digital Omnibus: Eroding Worker Protection and Rights

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The European Commission's "simplification" package is, in fact, a deregulatory intervention that weakens workers' data rights.

AI Note-Takers at Work: The Silent Threat to Privacy and Compliance

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

AI transcription tools promise efficiency but bring legal exposure, surveillance risks, and threats to fundamental rights.

The Digital Omnibus: Deregulation Dressed as Innovation

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The EU's sweeping data and AI package loosens safeguards for workers while promising competitiveness gains that will flow mainly to US tech giants.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete as Policy: Why Deregulation Won’t Save EU Innovation

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The European Commission's push to slash regulations in pursuit of competitiveness risks undermining the very foundations of technological progress.

China’s DeepSeek Is Changing the AI Race—What is Europe’s Edge?

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough challenges US dominance and disrupts global competition.

The AI Act: deregulation in disguise

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The loopholes in the AI Act emerging from trilogue negotiations late on Friday could allow big corporations to slip through.

Artificial intelligence: filling the gaps

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers.

MEPs need to listen to more voices on artificial intelligence

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The European Parliament’s committee exploring AI needs to give the floor to civil society. Big Tech has had enough influence.

Healthcare Professions And Jobs Going Digital

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

With the advent of new technologies, the healthcare sector is confronted with an unprecedented wave of change. What will the sector look like in a

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New Edition - Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2025

Can Europe preserve its distinctive social model while simultaneously rearming, reindustrialising, and reorganising its economy in a more conflictual and competitive world? This is the central question raised in this new edition of the Bilan social, a reference publication released every spring for more than 25 years by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE).

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Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.

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Read the book "The open future and its enemies" 

A robust democracy must not leave the future in the hands of the alliance between Big Tech and the far right. AI must be politically reined in and democratically shaped so that humanity retains its sovereignty.

Artificial intelligence is regarded as the driving force of progress. Yet it has long since become a challenge to democracy. The book argues that uncontrolled AI will erode our freedom, self-determination and democracy.

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2026

Minimum wage policy across Europe has shifted significantly, with many EU countries raising wages above average and anchoring them to adequate living standards. This trend is consolidating as countries increasingly adopt the reference values recommended in the European Minimum Wage Directive — recently upheld by the European Court of Justice.

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S&D Africa Days 2026

We are pleased to invite you to save the date for the S&D Africa Days 2026, taking place on 30 June and 1 July 2026, in Brussels. 

At a time when Africa is too often viewed through narrow and one-sided narratives, this initiative reflects a key political priority for the S&D Group: to advance a renewed, forward-looking partnership of equals between Europe and Africa based on equality, solidarity, social justice and shared progress. 

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“What is the actual purpose of the state?” – this central question is the focus of the analysis. At a time when bureaucratic processes are making life difficult for citizens, the paper proposes a three-part model. It aims at a conception of the state as a platform that helps society build the capabilities it needs to address its problems effectively.

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