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Rigels Lenja

Dr. des. Rigels Lenja is a journalist, columnist, and historian specialising in East and Southeast European Modern History. His research has focused on dictatorship, genocide, modern warfare, democracy, and modern religion.

Can Trump broker peace in Ukraine? History may hold the answers

Historical precedents highlight the challenges of finding a sustainable peace.

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S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity

Cohesion Policy seeks to foster balanced development and reduce economic, social, and territorial disparities, focusing on rural areas, regions in industrial transition, and those with severe or permanent natural or demographic disadvantages, including outermost, sparsely populated, island, cross-border, and mountain regions.

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🇪🇺 Building a Resilient, Equitable EU Health Union: The S&D Blueprint

From securing pharmaceutical autonomy and guaranteeing universal access to care (the European Health Guarantee) to combatting non-communicable diseases and closing the Gender Health Gap. Read the S&D Group in the European Parliament Position Paper demanding that health becomes a priority across all EU policies.

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Back to school with HesaMag 30: the leading European magazine on occupational safety and health explores teachers’ deteriorating working conditions. With field reporting, expert voices and trade union analysis, plus insights into EU policy shifts, discover why teachers’ health is key to our future.

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Watch Foundation Forum 2025 LIVE from Dublin!

Five decades after Ireland’s first EU Presidency and the founding of Eurofound, Dublin hosts a vital European debate on reconciling social progress with competitive growth. Join Taoiseach Micheál Martin, European Commission Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu, and author Daniel Susskind, alongside senior policymakers, social partners and civil society leaders, as they discuss Europe's technological, demographic, and climate challenges.

Watch the Livestream on the Eurofound website on 20 November, or sign up for the LinkedIn LIVE event.

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Read the new book “Algorithmic rule”!”

The future is not simply digital; it is algorithmic. Read the new book “Algorithmic rule”, edited by Maja Fjaestad and Simon Vinge.
The book explores what can be described as algocracy – rule by algorithms.
We need a progressive algorithmic future – an alternative that resists surrendering sovereignty to Big Tech. Transparency is essential, but it is not enough; the deeper challenge is to ensure that citizens and workers themselves influence the algorithms that govern them.

This book is part of the FEPS–Nordic Digital Programme.

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the European Minimum Wage Directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50% of the average wage.

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