Patrick ten Brink, author at Social Europe

About Patrick ten Brink

Patrick ten Brink is deputy secretary general and director of the EU policy unit of the European Environmental Bureau. Previously, he was director of the Brussels office of the Institute for European Environmental Policy and head of its green-economy programme.

Leaving behind the EU’s deadly addiction to deregulation

by Patrick ten Brink on 3rd March 2021

Better regulation is benevolent and participatory, cognisant of complexity and future-oriented. Deregulation it is not.

Returning our food systems to business as usual would be a historic mistake

by Patrick ten Brink on 23rd April 2020

Amid the coronavirus crisis, some are calling for a deferral of European ecological action. Yet unsustainable food systems are one source of new human diseases.

Call to Europe: mind the social gaps!

European commissioner Elisa Ferreira, former high representative Federica Mogherini, ministers Arancha González (Spain) and Pierre Yves Dermagne (Belgium) are among the speakers at the 10th edition of Call to Europe.

‘Recovering Europe: Mind the Social Gaps’ is this year’s topic. Fighting inequalities and ensuring an inclusive and sustainable recovery is the most pressing issue in times of Covid19!

Engage in lively discussions with prominent progressive change-makers, experts, civil-society representatives and policy-makers. Join and enjoy a three-day, highly interactive virtual festival, which will also include cultural activities and online competitions.

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With a pandemic raging, for those countries most affected by Brexit the end of the transition could not come at a worse time. Yet, might the UK's withdrawal be a blessing in disguise? With its biggest veto player gone, might the European Pillar of Social Rights take centre stage? This book brings together leading experts in European politics and policy to examine social citizenship rights across the European continent in the wake of Brexit. Will member states see an enhanced social Europe or a race to the bottom?

'This book correctly emphasises the need to place the future of social rights in Europe front and centre in the post-Brexit debate, to move on from the economistic bias that has obscured our vision of a progressive social Europe.' Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland

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WSI minimum wage report 2021: is Europe en route to adequate minimum wages?

In late 2020, the European Commission took an important step towards securing adequate minimum wages for all workers in Europe with the publication of a draft directive aimed at reversing the growing polarisation of incomes and the growth of in-work poverty. Securing an income sufficient for a decent standard of living will require substantial increases in minimum wages in virtually all member states—a medium-term objective that, according to the commission's calculations, would deliver clear social benefits. More than 25 million workers in Europe would benefit directly were statutory minimum wages to rise to either 60% of the median wage or 50% of the average wage. In Germany alone, where 60% of the median wage would equate to a minimum wage of €12.00, some 6.8 million workers would see increases in their pay.

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Industrial relations: developments 2015-2019

Eurofound has monitored and analysed developments in industrial relations systems at EU level and in EU member states for over 40 years. This new flagship report provides an overview of developments in industrial relations and social dialogue in the years immediately prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Findings are placed in the context of the key developments in EU policy affecting employment, working conditions and social policy, and linked to the work done by social partners—as well as public authorities—at European and national levels.

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Leaving behind the EU’s deadly addiction to deregulation

Returning our food systems to business as usual would be a historic mistake

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