Pierre Jean Coulon, Marie Delair and Kristian Krieger

Pierre Jean Coulon is president of the European Economic and Social Committee’s TEN section: Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and Information Society. He has had a long and distinguished career in the French trade union movement (CFTC), the United Nations’ Commission for Sustainable Development and the international NGO Droit à l’Energie SOS Futur. Marie Delair is a former fellow at the Freie Universitat Berlin. She assists the EESC secretariat on transport and energy issues. Kristian Krieger is responsible for energy policy in the secretariat of the TEN Section. He holds a PhD in environmental governance from King’s College London and has conducted research on the ethical dimension of the energy transition.

Pierre Jean Coulon, Marie Delair and Kristian Krieger

Kristian Krieger is responsible for energy policy in the secretariat of the TEN Section at the European Economic and Social Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Governance from King's College London and has conducted research on the ethical dimension of the energy transition prior to joining the EESC. Marie Delair (MD is a former fellow at the Freie Universitat Berlin. After training at the EU committee of the Bundestag, she currently assists the EESC Secretariat on Transport and Energy issues. Pierre Jean Coulon is President of the European Economic and Social Committee's Section Transport, Energy, Infrastructure, and Information Society (TEN Section). Earlier, he was a senior figure the French trade union movement (CFTC - French Confederation of Christian Workers), member of the United Nations' Commission for Sustainable Development, and the foundation of the International Non-Governmental Organisation of Droit à l'Energie SOS Futur.

Europe’s energy transition must steer towards social justice

Pierre Jean Coulon, Marie Delair and Kristian Krieger 17th January 2019

Environmentalists and anti-poverty campaigners haven’t always seen themselves on the same side of Europe’s energy transition. Dramatic reduction in the cost of renewables is making a new alignment feasible.

This new book published by Oxford University Press presents the findings of the multiannual ERC research project “Researching Precariousness Across the Paid/Unpaid Work Continuum”,
led by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), which are very important for the prospects of a more equal Europe.

Unpaid labour is no longer limited to the home or volunteer work. It infiltrates paid jobs, eroding rights and deepening inequality. From freelancers’ extra hours to care workers’ unpaid duties, it sustains precarity and fuels inequity. This book exposes the hidden forces behind unpaid labour and calls for systemic change to confront this pressing issue.

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How can Europe adapt to an ageing workforce?

How can Europe adapt to an ageing workforce? What impediments do older workers face at the workplace? How are changing technologies and job quality influencing the retention of older workers on the labour market?

This episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast series sets out to answer these questions in the context of changing demographics in Europe and the need to make work more sustainable.

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The policy brief series by FEPS and FES on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) offers timely insights into how the EU can advance gender-sensitive and sustainable peace agreements in a time of mounting militarisation.

While current measures being considered are framed as necessary responses to geopolitical instability, especially concerning Ukraine, there are significant concerns from an FFP perspective and broader security critiques.

We highlight five urgent considerations:

Feminist considerations for EU security and defence
Reversing cuts to feminist movements
Learning from Latin America’s Feminist Foreign Policy
Placing Feminist Foreign Policy at the heart of EU External Action
Embedding FFP into EU Foresight Practices

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2023/2024

Real wages in the European Union continued their decline in 2023—despite an acceleration in nominal wage growth and falling inflation rates. For the current year, there are only tentative signs of a slow recovery in the purchasing power of wages.

A resumption of real wage growth would stabilize the functional distribution of income and strengthen domestic demand. However, even under this benign scenario, the crisis is far from over from workers' point of view. They have borne the brunt of real income losses associated with the energy-price shock resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The lingering reduction in real wage levels means that wage policy still needs to catch up to contribute to a fairer distribution of the burden between labor and capital.