Sigurt Vitols, author at Social Europe

A long-overdue step on EU sustainability reporting

A draft directive on sustainability reporting begins to address the challenge of turning the corporate tanker towards a zero-emissions 2050.

Will workers’ rights lose out to ‘freedom of establishment?’

Sigurt Vitols

Who stands for Europe: the council of member states or the parliament of the citizens? A little-noticed coming directive will once again test that issue—with

EU Company Mobility Package: Implications For Social Europe

Sigurt Vitols

Will the ‘freedom of establishment’ – one of the basic freedoms in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) – mean that

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