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Kalina Arabadjieva


Kalina Arabadjieva is a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, with a PhD in labour law. She is working on gender equality and the just transition.

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Climate change adaptation means rights for workers

Kalina Arabadjieva 20th December 2024

Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers.

Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas

Kalina Arabadjieva 11th May 2023

As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity. The Covid-19 pandemic may not be over but a feeling of normality has settled and a return to prior times—if ‘seasonally adjusted’—seems to inch […]

Pay transparency yes, but we need more for equal pay

Kalina Arabadjieva 3rd January 2023

The gender pay gap is stubborn because several factors underpin it. Action is needed on all of them.

The home as office—what’s gender got to do with it?

Kalina Arabadjieva 30th March 2022

Rise of telework should dispel the notion that only work in the public sphere is, really, ‘work’.

Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap

Kalina Arabadjieva 24th February 2022

Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.

‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions

Kalina Arabadjieva 13th January 2022

The climate transition and its social dimension demand more powerful instruments than the European Commission proposes.

A small step towards gender equality in pay

Kalina Arabadjieva 26th March 2021

The European Commission’s proposal to reduce the stubborn gender pay gap pulls some punches, apparently anticipating employer resistance.

Time to act on pay transparency

Kalina Arabadjieva 2nd February 2021

The pandemic provides no excuse for inaction by the European Commission on gender pay transparency. It should be the incentive.

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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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