Europe’s Circular Economy Act Will Fail Without Workers at Its Heart
Judith Kirton-Darling and Jan Willem Goudriaan
Two union leaders warn that waste, repair and recycling jobs risk becoming Europe’s next low-pay, high-hazard market.
Europe’s €2 Trillion Lever: Public Procurement Can Tame Big Tech
Jan Willem Goudriaan, Simon Vinge and Christina Colclough
Europe spends €2 trillion a year buying goods and services; treating that money as mere book-keeping squanders a decisive democratic lever.
Made in Europe Must Serve Workers, Not Wealthy Shareholders
Europe’s industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.
Europe’s Digital Future Demands Public Ownership And Worker Control
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Diego Naranjo
European AI strategy must prioritise democratic governance over market solutions to protect citizens’ data and workers’ rights.
Establishing safe staffing in health and social care
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Adam Rogalewski
Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.
#FairFarma: an open call for a fair policy on drugs
Jan Willem Goudriaan, Claude Rolin and Jean-Pascal Labille
Belgian civil-society organisations issue a call to the presidency of the Council of the EU.
EU legislation on health data a gift to Big Tech
Irene Schipper, David Ollivier de Leth and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The European Health Data Space under negotiations will turn citizens’ medical data into profits for US technology corporations.
Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?
Philip Freeman and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.
European social dialogue for Europe’s social services
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Sylvain Renouvel
An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.
Public services key to a Europe ‘beyond growth’
Livia Spera, Susan Flocken, Jan Willem Goudriaan and Nigel Dennis
Europe must reject a return to austerity and support the workers who promote social wellbeing.
EU funds need stronger social conditionality
Claes-Mikael Ståhl, Judith Kirton-Darling, Jan Willem Goudriaan, Kristjan Bragason and Oliver Roethig
The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners.
EPC: an idea whose time has not come
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Sanat Sogani
The European Political Community will be a distraction, at best, in the institutional architecture of the continent.
Health and care workers have had enough
Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan
Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.
Who cares for the carers?
Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.
Public pensions push profit over care
Mark Hancock and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.
International Public Service Day—a day of celebration, action and resistance
Strong public administrations and well-funded public services are needed to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.