Thursday
8th Jun 2023
Cleaners demonstrated in front of the European Parliament. They are fed up with night shifts, not feeling safe at work, not getting enough sleep and the difficulty of juggling their working hours with their personal lives.
Everything could be seen as a 'political ad' — even well-known voices championing important issues, such as Greta Thunberg, could find themselves subject to European regulations for every tweet, Facebook post, or snap they share.
Final negotiations on the EU due diligence law begin this week. But will this law make companies embed due diligence requirements in their internal processes or incentive them to outsource their obligations to third parties?
The EU Commission is reviewing its posted workers directive. In recent years, subcontracting has lengthened EU supply chains, making it harder to detect labour abuses — and those responsible for them.
Extreme weather events in recent months have worsened agricultural production in southern Europe, prompting concerns for authorities in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy. As countries will likely face dryer conditions, experts urge adaptation measures for the 'new normal'.
EU parliament is calling for more protection for workers exposed to asbestos, the main cause of workplace fatalities in the EU, while member states remain more cautious and will call for a review of its mandate.
The commission also wants to address burnout at work, as around half of European workers consider stress to be common in their workplace and it contributes to around half of all lost working days.
EUobserver interviewed Spanish MEP Jordi Cañas to discuss the situation of Europe's middle class, the dangerous political reaction if certain groups feel neglected, and the role that member states and the EU can play at the policy level.
Help us empower the local and regional level, by proposing or participating in an EPP Local Dialogue in your village, city or region to discuss how to make Europe a better place to live in.
Regulatory gaps and blind spots mean that migrant workers from outside the EU do not have access to full social security coverage despite financing it, a new study reveals.
Austria, France, Ireland and the Netherlands want to tighten EU rules regulating polluting private jets.
In a world where cultural clashes and sectarianism seems to be on the increase, Spanish novelist Javier Cercas (b.1962) takes the opposite approach. He cherishes both life in the big city and in the countryside.
Two years after the Porto social summit, what progress has been made in the EU-27? Has it been enough? This Saturday, different stakeholders meet again to answer those questions.
Women provide the majority of paid and unpaid care in the EU. Working conditions are poor and socio-demographic changes will increase the need for carers. What can the EU do?
Russian media didn't show the Eurovision finals, while attacking them as a "total bacchanalia" for "perverts" in its anti-Western culture war.
With the significant influence it can have on EU legislation, it is disturbing that the Regulatory Scrutiny Board is allowed to operate largely in secret. EU citizens and even MEPs have no insight into how the RSB reaches its decisions.
It is problematic that many EU countries have rules that basically exclude men who have sex with men from the possibility to be blood donors. These bars are not evidence based.
We asked European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni and Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament Philippe Lamberts if Europe can fight inequality and protect the planet without growth.
An EU that renounces the economic growth dogma could more easily reduce its dependence on energy and materials from Russia and China, thus gaining resilience. Reducing its security dependence on the US, however, is a tougher nut to crack.
We sat down with Kate Raworth, the renegade thinker and author of Doughnut Economics to talk about prosperity beyond growth.
MEPs call on the EU Commission to propose a directive to ensure that European trainees have decent working conditions, including social protection and fair remuneration.
Flawed assumptions and a "disturbing" lack of transparency characterise an industry campaign against reusable packaging, academics and campaigners warn.
EU lawmakers intend to cede responsibility for "high risk" AI technology to two little-known technical standards organisations.
The potential for teleworking in the EU is estimated to be around 40 percent — where is it heading, where is it more widespread, and why?
New analysis by Greenpeace has ranked the affordability of public transport in 30 European countries — concluding that in most places prices are too high.
'Sheltered workshops' for the disabled apply lower salaries, show lower career development and promotion opportunities and lack of job stability, and the latest EU strategy does not identify best and worst practices.
Around 35 million buildings will need renovation or demolition in the next decade. A task that will expose millions of workers to asbestos.
Nearly half of active disabled people of working age are not in paid employment. And yet they face extra costs each year, earn less, and if they work, they risk losing their disability benefits.
Workers are ageing and there is a lack of young people to replace them — is the sector attractive enough right now? The Commission is already reviewing the regulation (and the obstacles).
The EU Commission has proposed an overhaul of its pharma-industry rules, aiming to cut medicine prices and even out access to new drugs across Europe.
Neither the future prospects nor the current situation of young people in Greece, Italy, and Spain are promising at the moment. But the three governments are implementing measures to reduce some of their worst employment problems.
Our 2023 Media Freedom Report shows that withering media pluralism is one of the greatest threats facing Europe's media landscape.
The European Health Data Space is a new EU law proposed to make use of your medical records for research purposes. It would essentially abolish the medical profession's oath of confidentiality with their patients. We must not let that happen.
