Europe Needs an Ambitious Clean Industrial Deal with a Strong Social Heart
Europe must act now to secure industrial jobs, ensure a Just Transition, and strengthen social conditions.
Isabelle Barthès
Austerity déjà vu: the return of the wrong economic medicine
The EU faces a stark choice: invest boldly in a sustainable, competitive future or risk repeating the mistakes of austerity.
Draghi report: a social agenda is lacking
The report on European ‘competitiveness’ is good on industrial strategy but poor from a social perspective.
Social dialogue: urgent to turn words into deeds
EU instruments encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining are very valuable—but not if employers can walk away.
Making the twin transition: skills at a premium
The European Union Year of Skills needs to deliver a ‘right to training’ for workers.
Introducing AI at work: workers must be involved
Rather than being displaced or controlled by AI, workers should be co-designers of its workplace deployment.
Sustainable competitiveness needs a social dimension
Glancing across the Atlantic, austerity and deregulation will make Europe neither competitive nor green.
Unions are giving workers a European voice in the crisis
Trade unions have been winning battles across Europe to halt the erosion of real wages but can’t win this war alone.
Anticipating the Covid-19 restructuring tsunami
There’s time to avoid the carnage of employer-led restructuring following the pandemic—but only if workers and unions set the agenda.