Florian Sanden

Florian Sanden is policy coordinator at the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL), a board member at Neurodiversity Belgium and a member of the advisory board of Interessenvertretung Selbstbestimmt Leben e.V.. He also serves on the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the WHO European framework for action to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for persons with disabilities 2022–2030.

Florian Sanden

How the EU Can Break Barriers for Disabled Workers

Florian Sanden 4th December 2024

Reforming state aid rules could revolutionize the integration of disabled people.

For socially fair European disability cards

Florian Sanden 13th November 2023

The proposal from the European Commission would fall short of equal citizenship for disabled people.

Disabled people and the right to personal assistance

Florian Sanden 29th June 2023

Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.

Does the European Care Strategy care about disability?

Florian Sanden 3rd November 2022

The European Commission’s initiative on long-term care addresses disability yet ignores key aspects of international law.

Deinstitutionalising disabled people—making it happen

Florian Sanden 1st September 2022

Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.

Disability: EU funding of institutions barely legal

Florian Sanden 7th July 2022

Is the European Commission complying with the UN convention on disability vis-à-vis funding institutions from the EU budget?

Deinstitutionalisation, disability and delay

Florian Sanden 10th May 2022

After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.

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.

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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How can Europe adapt to an ageing workforce?

How can Europe adapt to an ageing workforce? What impediments do older workers face at the workplace? How are changing technologies and job quality influencing the retention of older workers on the labour market?

This episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast series sets out to answer these questions in the context of changing demographics in Europe and the need to make work more sustainable.

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