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🔺A likely further oligopolisation of the financial industry and consolidation of financial capitalism in Europe

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🔺The risk of weakening banks’ funding base by shifting household savings away from bank deposits

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🔺Political resistance to deeper financial integration regarding national sovereignty over tax, legal, and regulatory frameworks

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Economists Jérôme Creel and Hubert Kempf reflect on EU proposals for developing the long-standing initiative for a Capital Markets Union into a broader Savings and Investment Union; the economic context of the plans; and the inherent hurdles and risks, including:

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 New policy brief on the Savings and Investments Union 🔗 etui.org/4AG

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🗞️ It's an opportune moment to take another look at our recent issue of #HesaMag, the ETUI's health & safety magazine, which was dedicated to examining the drivers and outcomes of these poor working conditions 🔗 etui.org/4Ax @etuce.eurosky.social

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is World Teachers' Day, a profession that is indispensable to our society, and yet that is increasingly suffering from difficult working conditions and consequent burnout cases and labour shortages

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As #AI transforms workplaces, the change may not be experienced by all workers evenly This talk presents new quantitative and qualitative evidence on AI adoption gaps between men and women across European labour markets, and outlines what firms and policymakers can do to close them ♀️ ♂️

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

[📣 Change of date! This webinar has been moved from 5 to 23 October] Don't miss the next #AItalks webinar, with guest speaker Anna Milanez, labour market economist at the OECD, and host @aidaponcedelcastillo.com

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Interview 🔗 irshare.eu/ir-notes-280... Full report 🔗 etui.org/4Mx

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ETUI senior researcher Aude Cefaliello interviewed in IR Share about her recent co-authored study that maps legislation, collective agreements and jurisprudence on psycho-social risks across all 27 EU Member States

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'Until now, the work published on #PsychoSocialRisks was based on research relating to certain countries only. The value added by our report is that we’ve now provided an exhaustive vision.'

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This publication is a product of the work of the MONACO Network, which coordinates legal experts at the national level to continously report on the transposition of EU #CompanyLaw from a worker participation perspective More info here 🔗 etui.org/4YR

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Download the full report here 🔗 etui.org/4YL

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🔺 In the few cases where the Directive does prescribe obligations for Member States, there have been many infringements, particularly regarding the right to vote on the adoption of a restructuring plan that affects the financial claims of workers

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🔺 Optional labour rights tend not to have been transposed in the majority of Member States, such as the right to access expertise

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🔺 In the vast majority of cases, transposition laws do not contain references to information and consultation rights

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🔺 Several Member States appear to have transposed the Directive in a compressed amount of time, with little or no consultation of trade unions as key stakeholders

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Several clauses, particularly those concerning #WorkerParticipation, are broadly formulated and grant Member States significant discretion in implementation - and the report finds several major weaknesses in the transposition process:

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Are the interests of #labour effectively protected under the 2019 EU Directive on preventive #restructuring and #insolvency? ⚖️ 💡 According to a new ETUI report from Séverine Picard (Progressive Policies), this depends heavily on national transposition choices

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Aussi disponible en français! 🔗 etui.org/4A5

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Download the full issue here 🔗 etui.org/4Ai

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☝ But despite this diversity, there was a clear common message: occupational safety and health cannot be an afterthought in climate and industrial policy – and workers need to be part of the decision-making You can watch the event recording here 🔗 etui.org/4Aw

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🗣️ Our speakers brought perspectives from the global and European policy levels at the @ilo.org and @etuc-ces.bsky.social, from interviews with workers on the ground across the continent, and from research expertise

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But the effects of this transformation are already being felt by workers across Europe, from those renovating #asbestos-ridden buildings or doing dangerous work installing #OffshoreWind turbines, to those exposed to toxic #chemicals in battery factories or processing #ElectronicWaste

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The impact on working conditions is often overlooked when we talk about the monumental task of adapting our economy and workplaces to the realities of #ClimateChange

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A green job is not automatically a good job 👷 Last week we launched a new issue of #HesaMag, the health & safety magazine with a European view 🗞️ This issue takes a hard look at the #OSH dimension of the #GreenTransition

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Full report 🔗 etui.org/4Mx

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It finds that the fragmented reality would benefit from a more harmonised European approach, to improve clarity around these concepts and to create greater uniformity across the EU.

A new ETUI report maps the current state of legislation, jurisprudence and collective agreements on work-related psychosocial risks, harassment and bullying, across all EU27 Member States.

However, patchy national laws and reliance on voluntary agreements leave millions of European workers without consistent, enforceable protection.

And employers are not blind to the problem: nearly 80% of managers express concern about work-related stress.

Recent survey evidence shows that nearly one in three workers experience stress, depression or anxiety linked to their job.

Want to read more about our ideas for a pro-worker trade policy? ✍️ Take a look at this recent article by @cmstahl.bsky.social and @andrewwatteu.bsky.social 🔗 www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-free-...

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📺 You can watch the event recording here 🔗 etui.org/4YU

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...Increasing innovation alone won’t mean that it shows up in the median person’s pocket. What matters is where the jobs are – let’s make those jobs better.’

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In the words of Dani Rodrik: ‘Europe shouldn’t try to emulate the Silicon Valley model of the US, where there has been great innovation but it has not been diffused throughout the economy to benefit workers...

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...the more important discussion is about the need for investment and EU-level public borrowing in order to unleash economic activity

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One clear message came up repeatedly: a narrow focus on competitiveness and deregulation are the wrong entry points into understanding how Europe’s position in the world can be strengthened...

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‘Seeking to protect workers is not the same thing as seeking to be protectionist’ The two following panels tackled the issue of how, with @wto.org and @ilo.org, Europe can promote strong labour standards across the world through its trade policy, while maintaining a commitment to multilateralism

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A clear example? China’s strategic investment in green technology has become a global public good The success of any future trade regime, Rodrik argued, will depend on the idea that countries be allowed to help themselves in order to help each other

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Dani Rodrik set the scene with an exploration of how two of today’s biggest global challenges – the green transition and economic inequality – can be met by an approach that allows countries to pursue their own industrial policies, without turning towards protectionism

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‘Prioritising domestic equity and social cohesion is not inimical to open economy - in fact, it is essential to it’

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