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Reiner Hoffmann


Reiner Hoffmann is chair of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB).

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Co-determination at issue in Europe’s top court

Reiner Hoffmann 11th April 2022

Can companies dilute national worker-involvement rights by becoming European?

Building social Europe, winning public confidence

Reiner Hoffmann 14th February 2022

Trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining.

Making globalisation fair

Reiner Hoffmann 9th March 2020

Enterprises must address—and government more actively demand of them—their observance of human rights.

The EU’s Avoidable Greek Tragedy

Reiner Hoffmann 26th July 2017

In June 2017, the Eurogroup of 19 EU finance ministers agreed to pay out the third tranche of €8.5 billion from the Greek bailout package. In total, Greece has received about €300bn from the rescue package until now. But did this incredibly high amount of money reach the Greek population? Did its living conditions improve? […]

Using The CETA To Move Towards A Social And Environment-Friendly Globalisation

Reiner Hoffmann 5th September 2016

Economic globalisation has accelerated enormously. With the advances in information technology and international trade policies, it now permeates almost every sector of the economy as well as our whole way of life. At the same time, tariffs and technical trade barriers have been massively dismantled through wide-ranging market liberalisation, and worldwide competition has been ratcheted […]

The Way Forward For Greece And Europe

Reiner Hoffmann 5th February 2015

The Greek elections have thrown European politics into turmoil. How do you assess the election result? The majority of Greek voters have delivered a No to crisis management through austerity which has led the country into a social catastrophe. The massive spending cuts have driven the country into the deepest recession and, at the same […]

Changing Course Towards A Social Europe

Reiner Hoffmann 9th July 2014

Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for his work on how markets work inefficiently was once asked about his opinion on austerity measures. “It reminds me of medieval medicine,” he said. “It is like blood-letting, where you took blood out of a patient because the theory was that there were bad tumours. And very often, […]

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


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