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Jan Willem Goudriaan


Jan Willem Goudriaan has been general secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) since 2014.

Jan Willem Goudriaan

Establishing safe staffing in health and social care

Jan Willem Goudriaan 24th March 2024

Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.

#FairFarma: an open call for a fair policy on drugs

Jan Willem Goudriaan 22nd February 2024

Belgian civil-society organisations issue a call to the presidency of the Council of the EU.

EU legislation on health data a gift to Big Tech

Jan Willem Goudriaan 20th February 2024

The European Health Data Space under negotiations will turn citizens’ medical data into profits for US technology corporations.

Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?

Jan Willem Goudriaan 21st September 2023

The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.

European social dialogue for Europe’s social services

Jan Willem Goudriaan 13th July 2023

An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.

Public services key to a Europe ‘beyond growth’

Jan Willem Goudriaan 23rd June 2023

Europe must reject a return to austerity and support the workers who promote social wellbeing.

EU funds need stronger social conditionality

Jan Willem Goudriaan 11th May 2023

The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners.

EPC: an idea whose time has not come

Jan Willem Goudriaan 9th January 2023

The European Political Community will be a distraction, at best, in the institutional architecture of the continent.

Health and care workers have had enough

Jan Willem Goudriaan 9th December 2022

Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.

Who cares for the carers?

Jan Willem Goudriaan 8th September 2022

The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.

Public pensions push profit over care

Jan Willem Goudriaan 25th April 2022

The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.

International Public Service Day—a day of celebration, action and resistance

Jan Willem Goudriaan 23rd June 2021

Strong public administrations and well-funded public services are needed to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.

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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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