Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Kalypso Nicolaïdis holds a chair in international affairs at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.

Kalypso Nicolaïdis

How do we fix Europe’s presidency dilemma?

Kalypso Nicolaïdis 1st July 2021

Who represents the EU internationally? ‘Sofagate’ reignited the issue and the Conference on the Future of Europe should aim to sort it.

A European pivot from space to time

Kalypso Nicolaïdis 11th September 2019

Kalypso Nicolaidis concludes our ‘Euro2025’ series with a look beyond the new EU term, on which it has focused, to the long-term future of the continent.

Sustainable Integration: A New Ambition For The EU

Kalypso Nicolaïdis 13th October 2016

What future for the EU after Brexit? European leaders meeting at Bratislava on 16 September promised Europeans that this would be the beginning of a process leading up to the March celebrations of the EU’s 60th anniversary. Critical areas where they would seek concrete progress ranged from control of migration and external borders to deeper […]

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Take part in the first Recovery Watch annual gathering on September 29th!

Are there lessons to be learned from the National Recovery and Resilience Plans? Will the NRRPs be able to drive us towards a more socially and environmentally sustainable society? FEPS, FES and IEV, in collaboration with several first-rate research organisations, have built a structured network of experts to monitor the implementation of NRRPs and assess their impact on key social outcomes. Among the speakers: Mariana Vieira da Silva, Portuguese minister of the presidency; Thomas Dermine, Belgian state secretary for economic recovery and strategic investment; Mario Nava, director-general at DG REFORM, and many others.

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Towards a new Minimum Wage Policy in Germany and Europe: WSI minimum wage report 2022

The past year has seen a much higher political profile for the issue of minimum wages, not only in Germany, which has seen fresh initiatives to tackle low pay, but also in those many other countries in Europe that have embarked on substantial and sustained increases in statutory minimum wages. One key benchmark in determining what should count as an adequate minimum wage is the threshold of 60 per cent of the median wage, a ratio that has also played a role in the European Commission's proposals for an EU-level policy on minimum wages. This year's WSI Minimum Wage Report highlights the feasibility of achieving minimum wages that meet this criterion, given the political will. And with an increase to 12 euro per hour planned for autumn 2022, Germany might now find itself promoted from laggard to minimum-wage trailblazer.

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