EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
Roland Erne
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?
Court challenge to EU minimum wage directive exposes tensions between legal interpretation, political compromise and social policy.
On a plane with Nicolas Schmit
The lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists sets out his political stall for the European Parliament elections in June.
How To Explain The Swiss Vote Against The Free Movement Of Workers
On 8 February 2009, almost 60 percent of Swiss voters supported the extension of the bilateral EU-Switzerland agreement on the free movement of workers to