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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.

Europe’s Digital Future Demands Public Ownership And Worker Control

Jan Willem Goudriaan and Diego Naranjo

European AI strategy must prioritise democratic governance over market solutions to protect citizens' data and workers' rights.

Establishing safe staffing in health and social care

Jan Willem Goudriaan and Adam Rogalewski

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, Claude Rolin and Jean-Pascal Labille

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

Irene Schipper, David Ollivier de Leth and Jan Willem Goudriaan

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?

Philip Freeman and Jan Willem Goudriaan

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 and Sylvain Renouvel

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’

Livia Spera, Susan Flocken, Jan Willem Goudriaan and Nigel Dennis

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

EU funds need stronger social conditionality

Claes-Mikael Ståhl, Judith Kirton-Darling, Jan Willem Goudriaan, Kristjan Bragason and Oliver Roethig

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 and Sanat Sogani

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

Health and care workers have had enough

Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan

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

Who cares for the carers?

Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan

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

Public pensions push profit over care

Mark Hancock and Jan Willem Goudriaan

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

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

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European productivity: the real constraint is not debt, but investment

The EU’s Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) has become a central tool for shaping national budgets under the new economic governance framework. According to a new ETUI paper, it is also systematically undervaluing the economic benefits of public investment—at the expense of productivity and long-term growth. “Rethinking the role of public investment does not mean abandoning fiscal discipline. It means recognising that certain investments strengthen long-term debt sustainability by generating higher growth and stronger public revenues,” explains Christos Pierros, the author.

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Eurofound Talks: Europe's productivity paradox

This episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast looks at why Europe has experienced a more profound slowdown in growth compared to other developed regions, and why greater labour input and higher human capital has not translated into higher output per worker. Mary McCaughey and John Hurley also discuss whether Europe can, and should, look to compete with countries such as the United States and China in the race to harness artificial intelligence.
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Progressive Post Issues

The Autumn-Winter issue of The Progressive Post is out!”

Among this issue’s highlights, we debate war and defence, underlining the urgent necessity of peace. We look at the European Commission's budget proposal, particularly the fate of the cohesion funds, and at the EU's international partnerships and ask whether the EU can pursue its strategic interests while simultaneously promoting its partners' genuine development. Finally, we address COP30 and the issue of fossil fuels, which was intentionally ignored during the negotiations held in Brazil.

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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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Cohesion Policy

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

Cohesion Policy seeks to foster balanced development and reduce economic, social, and territorial disparities, focusing on rural areas, regions in industrial transition, and those with severe or permanent natural or demographic disadvantages, including outermost, sparsely populated, island, cross-border, and mountain regions.

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🇪🇺 Building a Resilient, Equitable EU Health Union: The S&D Blueprint


From securing pharmaceutical autonomy and guaranteeing universal access to care (the European Health Guarantee) to combatting non-communicable diseases and closing the Gender Health Gap. Read the S&D Group in the European Parliament Position Paper demanding that health becomes a priority across all EU policies.

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