‘Social Europe’ can’t just be an empty slogan as the elections approach. It must be given real substance. There’s a very one-sided – ‘politically correct’ – debate about Europe at the moment. Criticism of Europe seems to be taboo, or at least attracts a lot of negative feedback. Criticism is labelled with the adjectives ‘nationalistic’ […]
Peter Scherrer and Wolfgang Kowalsky
Peter Scherrer is Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation since 2015. He was previously General Secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF). Wolfgang Kowalsky is a policy adviser working in the trade union movement in Brussels.