Unions take campaign against draft EU law that creates a 28th virtual member state to facilitate business opt-outs of the law of the land to Commissioner’s home city
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Unions take ‘EU Inc’ campaign to Commissioner’s home city
Trade unions are taking the fight to stop the European Commission putting workers’ conditions, pay and say at work at risk through a ‘28th regime’ to the hometown of the Commissioner responsible for the initiative.
Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
People are clear about their priorities: cost of living, jobs, public health.
Yet the Commission is pushing #austerity and a corporate agenda.
This doesn’t match people’s concerns.
Europe needs a #PublicServicesAgenda for people - not deregulation for big business.
📷 Eurobarometer 2025/Q4 survey
✊Workers are mobilising in Strasbourg for a decisive moment in EU labour policy
📢 The moment to act is now
Join us to #StopExploitation !
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Unless EU regulates tech platforms, they … damage democracy. Nor should Europe sacrifice social safety or quality public services on the altar of competitiveness. Nor should it abandon the green deal.
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EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/11/eu-c... @rolanderne.bsky.social
EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social
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“Workers would not have understood why the EU had the power to cut wages and to decentralise collective bargaining after the 2008 crisis but not the power to provide a framework for advocate minimum wages and higher collective bargaining coverage" said Prof Roland Erne www.rte.ie/news/busines...
My take on the EU Court’s minimum wage verdict from Luxemburg
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In 20 minutes, we will know the the verdict of European court of justice on the legality of the EU directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.
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Thanks so much Stijn warm regards from Ireland Roland
We are thrilled that 'Politicising Commodification' has received an Honourable Mention for the 2025 July Brian Farrell Prize for the Best Book Published in Political Science
Thank you @psairishpol.bsky.social for this honour!
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse - @desmog.com
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see also the German version in @taz.de and the French version in @humanite.fr
UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025 DAILY ROUND-UP Our 2025 Award Winners Our Chair, Toni Haastrup, had the pleasure of presenting our 2025 winners with their awards, recognising their exceptional contributions to European studies. Honourable Mentions An Honourable Mention for the UACES Best Book Award goes to: • Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone for Politicising Commodification - European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. These works represent further exceptional scholarship and talent within the European studies community.
Just back from the UACES conference, were our new book got an honourable mention
Erne, R., Stan, S., Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Maccarrone, V. (2024) Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. Cambridge UP (open access)
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The exposure to horizontal market pressures in the EU economy alone cannot explain the rise in collective transnational protest actions. Rather, increasing vertical political pressures triggered by commodifying policy interventions of EU authorities play a key role in driving transnational action.
We have explained its methodology here
Erne, R and Nowak J (2025). Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? European Journal of Industrial Relations, OnlineFirst, doi.org/10.1177/0959...
Our Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database is now available open access:
Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
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On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections
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Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
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Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
Here's the link to follow the healthcare crisis conference in the European Parliament 2pm Brussels time online:
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Pictures from today European demonstration against the commodification of public #healthcare services @epsu.bsky.social @fagforbundet.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social @sudsantesociaux35.bsky.social @bigmacca.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @greens-efa.eu
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European Parliament seminar on the attack on the minimum wage directive.
Commissioner Nicolas Schmit who has drafted the Directive is speaking first. My contribution is at 1:02:00.
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I will be speaking live in the EU Parliament on the attack on the EU minimum wage directive this Thursday 27-3 at 9:30
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