EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise
The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.
Deregulating Workers’ Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis
Blaming labour protections for factory closures is not industrial policy — it is avoidance dressed as reform.
Don’t Mourn, Organise: Europe’s Path Through Global Turbulence
As geopolitical threats mount and the far right advances, Europe must respond with principled strength and genuine industrial renewal.
Europe’s Industrial Crisis: Invest Now or Accept Decline
Across 18 sectors, only aerospace and defence remain globally competitive—Europe must abandon naivety and act decisively.
Europe Needs Active Demand Management, Not Business As Usual
As tariff wars and industrial crises mount, Europe must abandon austerity for investment-driven internal demand.
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.
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.