Showing posts with label European integration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European integration. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

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Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al

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In their major monograph Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emerg...
Monday, 7 April 2025

The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?

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The year began dramatically for Social Europe. On 14 January, Nicholas Emiliou, one of the European Union’s Advocates General, advised the C...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020

The cartographies of Baltic labour resistance

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The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion ...
Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Moving towards Social Europe? The EU post-2008 crisis economic governance regime under review.

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Photo by Yanni Koutsomitis Following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union adopted a new economic governance regime. As  Jamie ...
Tuesday, 31 March 2020

The day the EU lost its moral authority

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The pictures could have been hardly more dramatic on 2 March 2020. Syrian refugees in a fragile boat in open sea are desperate for help and...
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

European integration and the Global Crisis: What prospects for a social Europe?

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How does the project of European integration relate to globalization? Is a revival of the project of social Europe still possible and wha...
Monday, 29 January 2018

Turkish labour under deteriorating socio-economic conditions: why is there no united front?

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Turkey, a peripheral country with poor working conditions, has been subjected to an anti-labour regime and severe capitalist exploitati...
Friday, 24 March 2017

Britain and the EU: a merchant’s perspective.

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On Wednesday, 8 March a high profile panel discussed the future of Britain’s relationship with the EU at Nottingham University . Nottingham...
Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Betraying Europe and the danger of collapsing integration.

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Photo by Wolf Gang Brexit demonstrated clearly what many had perceived to be impossible: European integration is reversible. The potent...
Monday, 27 June 2016

What a victory for the ‘internationalist’ pro-Brexit left!

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All European citizens have just been stripped of their European citizenship rights in Northern Ireland and Britain. Hence, no right to vo...
Friday, 24 June 2016

Brexit and the rise of the nationalist right: Where next for the British left?

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Photo by Rareclass ‘I don’t mind Germans, Italians, the Spanish, but I hate them Bulgarians and Romanians. Thieves the whole lot of the...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

What position for the labour movement on the EU referendum?

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On Thursday, 23 June, a  referendum   will be held to decide whether Britain   should leave or remain in the   European Union . When Jacque...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

In or Out? The UK and EU membership: Asking the wrong questions.

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The British public is gripped by the campaigns around the EU referendum and the question of whether to stay in the EU or leave European i...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Is migration from Central and Eastern Europe really an opportunity for trade unions to demand higher wages? Evidence from the Romanian health sector.

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The social failures of the eastward enlargement of the European Union can hardly be ignored anymore. Instead of becoming part of wel...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

Why has the European labor movement largely failed to politicize the EU’s new economic governance regime?

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The creation of the new European governance regime requires an explanation. In contrast to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)...
Friday, 17 July 2015

Greece, the Eurozone crisis and the end of European solidarity?

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Image by Wikimedia Commons After five years of imposed austerity, the Greek economy is on its knees. GDP has declined by 25 per cent, u...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Form over Contents or the misguided discussions over the new President of the EU Commission.

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David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, was defeated in Brussels over his attempt to block the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as t...