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Will Boeing crash ‘shareholder value’?

Katharina Pistor

Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.

Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability

Joanne Krus and Gemma Bird

As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.

Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’

Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano and John Hendy

The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.

Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling

Wouter Zwysen

Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.

Rethinking universalism and social rights

Maurizio Ferrera

Social rights in Europe today require marrying 20th-century universalism with the meeting of diverse, complex needs.

Beyond the ‘backlash’: the green electoral agenda

Jannik Jansen

Voters want a just transition and more, not less, green investment ahead of the European elections.

EU trade policy in troubled times

Bernhard Tröster

Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.

The double life of the Indian economy

Jayati Ghosh

Narendra Modi aims to return to power, Jayati Ghosh writes, against a backdrop of unprecedented inequality.

The world’s moral failure in Gaza

Graça Machel

The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.

Danger: hazardous medicinal products at work

Ian Lindsley

Healthcare workers will be protected from hazardous drugs by an EU law which had to be transposed by member states by today.

Protecting EU health policy from tobacco lobbying

Emily O'Reilly

The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.

Defending the rule of law in the EU

Daniel Freund

The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.

Grids risk holding back Europe’s energy transition

Elisabeth Cremona

Europe must revise outdated grid plans to prepare for surging deployment of wind and solar power.

Honesty needed to save just transition in EP elections

Wouter van de Klippe

Unless the political dial can be turned, this year’s European Parliament elections will put the environment on the line.

The case for a radical, liberal left

Robert Misik

We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.

Socialist hegemony: construction time again

Carl Rowlands

Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.

Platform work directive—delivering rights for all

Ludovic Voet

Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.

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New Edition - Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2025

Can Europe preserve its distinctive social model while simultaneously rearming, reindustrialising, and reorganising its economy in a more conflictual and competitive world? This is the central question raised in this new edition of the Bilan social, a reference publication released every spring for more than 25 years by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE).

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Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.

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A robust democracy must not leave the future in the hands of the alliance between Big Tech and the far right. AI must be politically reined in and democratically shaped so that humanity retains its sovereignty.

Artificial intelligence is regarded as the driving force of progress. Yet it has long since become a challenge to democracy. The book argues that uncontrolled AI will erode our freedom, self-determination and democracy.

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2026

Minimum wage policy across Europe has shifted significantly, with many EU countries raising wages above average and anchoring them to adequate living standards. This trend is consolidating as countries increasingly adopt the reference values recommended in the European Minimum Wage Directive — recently upheld by the European Court of Justice.

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S&D Africa Days 2026

We are pleased to invite you to save the date for the S&D Africa Days 2026, taking place on 30 June and 1 July 2026, in Brussels. 

At a time when Africa is too often viewed through narrow and one-sided narratives, this initiative reflects a key political priority for the S&D Group: to advance a renewed, forward-looking partnership of equals between Europe and Africa based on equality, solidarity, social justice and shared progress. 

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“What is the actual purpose of the state?” – this central question is the focus of the analysis. At a time when bureaucratic processes are making life difficult for citizens, the paper proposes a three-part model. It aims at a conception of the state as a platform that helps society build the capabilities it needs to address its problems effectively.

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