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Béla Galgóczi

Béla Galgóczi is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute and editor of Response measures to the energy crisis: policy targeting and climate trade-offs (ETUI, 2023).

Can the EU’s Tariffs on Chinese EVs Save Its Auto Industry?

Béla Galgóczi

EU imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs—but can this safeguard jobs and competitiveness, or must Europe rethink its clean tech strategy?

A socio-ecological contract for a Europe in transition

Béla Galgóczi

The decarbonisation of Europe must be accelerated—which requires a new European social model.

Sharp energy-price shock met fuzzy responses

Béla Galgóczi

National measures adopted amid the energy crisis missed the opportunity to pursue social and climate goals.

E-fuels: a synthetic solution to the real problem

Béla Galgóczi

The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.

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Ukraine and the geopolitics of the energy transition

Béla Galgóczi and Paolo Tomassetti

The worst scenario of an ‘unjust transition’ has hoved into view with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But another Europe is possible.

Fit for 55, climate neutrality

‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions

Mehtap Akgüç, Kalina Arabadjieva and Béla Galgóczi

The climate transition and its social dimension demand more powerful instruments than the European Commission proposes.

Is Europe socially fit for the ‘Fit for 55’ package?

Béla Galgóczi

The centrality of market mechanisms to the European Commission’s climate package poses big questions as to its effectiveness and distributional impact.

Why should just transition be an integral part of the European Green Deal?

Béla Galgóczi

In our series on ‘just transition’, Béla Galgóczi focuses on what it means for the key sectors of coal and cars.

2008: The Year East-West Wage Convergence Came To A Standstill

Béla Galgóczi

The crisis has put an end to wage convergence of the poorer Central and Eastern European new EU member states (EU-11, being: Czechia, Estonia, Hungary,

After COP 21: The EU Needs To Revise Its Climate Policy Targets

Béla Galgóczi

The 2015 COP21 summit in Paris was presented as a last chance to reach a global agreement to control climate change caused by human activity.

Europe’s Fading Climate Policy Ambitions

Béla Galgóczi

Europe is losing momentum in greening its economy, and its former leadership in this area is eroding rapidly. Indeed, after a 60% drop in clean

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the European Minimum Wage Directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50% of the average wage.

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S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity

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This episode of Eurofound Talks examines the evolving landscape of European working conditions, situated at the nexus of profound technological transformation.

Mary McCaughey speaks with Barbara Gerstenberger, Eurofound's Head of Unit for Working Life, who leverages insights from the 35-year history of the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS).
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Spring Issues

The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out!

It is time to take action and to forge a path towards a Socialist renewal. European Socialists struggle to balance their responsibilities with the need to take bold positions and actions in the face of many major crises, while far-right political parties are increasingly gaining ground. Against this background, we offer European progressive forces food for thought on projecting themselves into the future.

Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss the transformative power of European Social Democracy, examine the far right’s efforts to redesign education systems to serve its own political agenda and highlight the growing threat of anti-gender movements to LGBTIQ+ rights – among other pressing topics.

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