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Judith Kirton-Darling

Judith Kirton-Darling is general secretary of industriAll European Trade Union. She was a British member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2020 and confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation.

No ‘business as usual’ for European industry

The choices EU leaders make in the coming years will determine whether European industry has a long-term future.

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.

Anticipating the Covid-19 restructuring tsunami

Judith Kirton-Darling and Isabelle Barthès

There’s time to avoid the carnage of employer-led restructuring following the pandemic—but only if workers and unions set the agenda.