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Which brings us to today. This week, the European Commission unveiled plans to push its social policy agenda once again in a bid to reconnect with disheartened citizens and coax voters not to place their faith in the populist fringes of the political spectrum. The European Pillar of Social Rights, presented on Wednesday by Employment Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, put forward 20 social principals it wants to see member states adopt. The most prominent include strengthening workers' rights, revamping employment law by bringing the gig economy into national social systems and introducing new r...

The body representing civil society in Europe says it wants to be in the “driving seat” of the Conference that starts on 9 May and will last a year.

Oliver Röpke is the president of the Workers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) The proposal for a minimum wage directive currently under discussion is of key political importance. It is the Commission’s social policy flagship initiative, announced by President von der Leyen at the beginning of her term of office. The proposal is not free from controversy, as expected in such an important measure. At its recent plenary session, the EESC backed with a broad majority a favourable opinion supporting it, but was nonetheless also witness to diverging views. Howe...

For the first time after the signature of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement, Michel Barnier (pictured), head of the European Commission Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom, expressed publicly his views on the text during a debate at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) January plenary session.

EU Reporter Published 2 months ago British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (pictured) said there were lots of “teething problems” with the country’s adjustment to life outside the European Union’s single market but the hard-hit fishing industry would gain over the medium to longer term, write Guy Faulconbridge and William Schomberg. “Of course there are there are teething problems in lots of areas and that’s inevitable because this is a big change,” Johnson said during a visit to Scotland on Thursday (28 January). “But be in no doubt, over the medium term and much more over the ...