Aida Ponce Del Castillo

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

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

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

Aida Ponce Del Castillo 12th February 2025

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

The AI Act: deregulation in disguise

Aida Ponce Del Castillo 11th December 2023

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 14th April 2022

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 11th January 2021

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 6th April 2018

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 few years time? How can healthcare workers navigate an environment that is increasingly digital, data-dependent and interconnected? For the general public, access to medical “knowledge” has skyrocketed these past years. […]

The Politics of Unpaid Work

This new book published by Oxford University Press presents the findings of the multiannual ERC research project “Researching Precariousness Across the Paid/Unpaid Work Continuum”,
led by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), which are very important for the prospects of a more equal Europe.

Unpaid labour is no longer limited to the home or volunteer work. It infiltrates paid jobs, eroding rights and deepening inequality. From freelancers’ extra hours to care workers’ unpaid duties, it sustains precarity and fuels inequity. This book exposes the hidden forces behind unpaid labour and calls for systemic change to confront this pressing issue.

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Teleworking experiment

Is Europe’s teleworking experiment coming to an end?

A new episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast looks at data from the Living and working in the EU e-survey showing a decline in the number of respondents engaged in remote work, with the percentage of people working entirely from the workplace increasing from 36% in 2023, to 41% in 2024.

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Progressive Ukraine

The policy brief series by FEPS and FES on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) offers timely insights into how the EU can advance gender-sensitive and sustainable peace agreements in a time of mounting militarisation.

While current measures being considered are framed as necessary responses to geopolitical instability, especially concerning Ukraine, there are significant concerns from an FFP perspective and broader security critiques.

We highlight five urgent considerations:

Feminist considerations for EU security and defence
Reversing cuts to feminist movements
Learning from Latin America’s Feminist Foreign Policy
Placing Feminist Foreign Policy at the heart of EU External Action
Embedding FFP into EU Foresight Practices

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2023/2024

Real wages in the European Union continued their decline in 2023—despite an acceleration in nominal wage growth and falling inflation rates. For the current year, there are only tentative signs of a slow recovery in the purchasing power of wages.

A resumption of real wage growth would stabilize the functional distribution of income and strengthen domestic demand. However, even under this benign scenario, the crisis is far from over from workers' point of view. They have borne the brunt of real income losses associated with the energy-price shock resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The lingering reduction in real wage levels means that wage policy still needs to catch up to contribute to a fairer distribution of the burden between labor and capital.