Social Europe

Powering up: the EU and solar energy

Francesco Crespi, Dario Guarascio, Serenella Caravella and Giacomo Cucignatto

A new approach is needed towards the photovoltaic industry in Europe.

Nagorno-Karabakh: it’s not over yet

Svante Lundgren

The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its ‘reliable energy partner’.

Sweden’s climate policy—off the rails

A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.

Detroit, Joe Biden and a union renaissance

For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.

The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction

Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.

Prostitution is not a free choice for women

Lina Gálvez Muñoz

The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.

WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2022 / 2023

With real wages falling by 4 per cent in 2022, workers in the European Union suffered an unprecedented loss in purchasing power. The reason for this was the rapid increase in consumer prices, behind which nominal wage growth fell significantly. Meanwhile, inflation is no longer driven by energy import prices, but by domestic factors. The increased profit margins of companies are a major reason for persistent inflation. In this difficult environment, trade unions are faced with the challenge of securing real wages—and companies have the responsibility of making their contribution to returning to the path of political stability by reducing excess profits.

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The future of remote work

The 12 chapters collected in this volume provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the impact and the future trajectories of remote work, from the nexus between the location from where work is performed and how it is performed to how remote locations may affect the way work is managed and organised, as well as the applicability of existing legislation. Additional questions concern remote work’s environmental and social impact and the rapidly changing nature of the relationship between work and life.

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Eurofound Talks: does Europe have the skills it needs for a changing economy?

In this episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound’s research manager, Tina Weber, its senior research manager, Gijs van Houten, and Giovanni Russo, senior expert at CEDEFOP (The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training), about Europe’s skills challenges and what can be done to help workers and businesses adapt to future skills demands.

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The summer issue of the Progressive Post magazine by FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to the importance of biodiversity, not only as a good in itself but also for the very existence of humankind. We need a paradigm change in the mostly utilitarian relation humans have with nature.

In this issue, we also look at the hazards of unregulated artificial intelligence, explore the shortcomings of the EU's approach to migration and asylum management, and analyse the social downside of the EU's current ethnically-focused Roma policy.

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