For now, let's see what the Court of Justice rules in two weeks... 👀

#EUSocialPolicy #MinimumWageDirective #CollectiveBargaining #IndustrialRelations #SocialEurope #LabourLaw #EuropeanUnion

🚨 #CfP reminder!
Join us in Oxford (13 Jan 2026) for
‘Social Policy in Europe: Diverse Contexts, Shared Challenges’

Exploring European #SocialPolicy?
We welcome papers using diverse methods and perspectives on urgent and evolving issues in the field 🌍

#EUSocialPolicy #PolicyStudies #PSA2026

📊 1 in 4 children in the EU are at risk of #poverty
📈 +600,000 since 2019
💶 €8.9B from ESF+ is meant to help but many barriers remain
⚠️ Meanwhile, funds shift to defence & other sectors
📢We must put children’s needs at the heart of #EUsocialpolicy: buff.ly/CoCxp8R

“People, skills, and preparedness”: a paradigm shift in EU social policy Ein Blog über die Demokratie in Europa

In the new EU Commission, the employment portfolio is to be renamed “people, skills, and preparedness”.

The strange new title marks a paradigm shift in EU social policy, argue AMANDINE CRESPY and BASTIAN KENN.

#SocialEurope #EUsocialpolicy #Commission2024

Don’t forget the social dimension! Enabling social convergence in a new European governance framework By Björn Hacker

The EU's new economic governance framework will also determine the place of its social dimension. Germany should overcome its traditional fixation on budgetary issues and support proposals for an EU social convergence path.

By BJÖRN HACKER

#BerlinPerspectives #SocialEurope #EUsocialpolicy