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The Traineeship Directive will be a crucial test case for the direction of EU youth employment regulation . Give the WP a look 👀! It has been one of my most exciting research projects of this past year 🌞! Thank you @karabadjieva.bsky.social and @wzwysen.bsky.social

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Second, (b) I assess and critique the current EU governance infrastructure for youth employment built upon the EU Youth Guarantee. Third, I seek to (c) transform youth employment regulation via concrete examples. Work transitions should ensure quality in access to work and in work.

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In the working paper, I contextualise how (a) youth employment has been individuated, ie placing the primary responsibility for work transitions on young individuals and transforming public institutions and social partners in skill-building providers.

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Interested in youth employment 🧒? EU Youth Guarantee or a Traineeship Directive ☝️? Labour law, EU economic governance or EU funding 📒? For young people to be a force of transformation, access to work should not be pitted against work quality 🙌! Go look at the ETUI working paper.

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Since the sovereign debt crisis, the EU has focused on regulating young people’s transitions to work. A new paper by Marc Steiert proposes guiding principles into the regulation of these work transitions. etui.org/ZLf

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025... Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social

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Ohne EU-Mindestlohn kein soziales Europa

Nach Jahren antisozialer Politik infolge der Finanzkrise von 2008 standen soziale Fragen in der vergangenen Legislatur der EU wieder weiter oben auf der Agenda. Zwischen 2022 und 2024 verabschiedeten ...

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Very interesting all of it! I am really looking forward to the discussion 😊

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Workers excluded from a transposing act. Incompatibility was rather evident since Rodriguez Mayor (long ago), yet no infringement. 30's essence could be a right to a regulatory framework for dismissal, which the CRD does establish (no comp or scope issues). I think exclusion could be about essence.

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The point on essence is particularly intriguing! Plamaro denies Art 30 to carry substance as such. To a labour lawyer that must be stunning given its rich normative input and realization in EU law. I'd actually argue that Plamaro is/was/could have been about essence.

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Plamaro also has an impact on the CFR's indivisibility by extending AMS to 30 CFR, which unlike 27 is phrased like Art 28, or the infamous Art 16. So it may tie into the cases subjecting social rights to lesser importance in EU law...

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Plamaro is ofc a technical decision, or at least presented by the CJEU as such (no AG, 2nd Chamber). Nonetheless, it's a sensitive horizontality issue somewhat ditched in the reasoning and by who adjudicated it (ie first time not the Grand Chamber). That is intriguing to me!

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This is some really interesting thoughts! Of course, it's up to each of us (influenced by some volumes) to define what is a 'landmark'. Was it only decisions like Van Gend en Loos? I'd say this classification also depends on our degrees of generalism and specialisation in (an area of) EU law.

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If you have a different view, want to know more and/or discuss with us, come along!

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It extends the infamous decision in AMS to Art 30 CFR (although by the 2nd Chamber only), thereby entrenching a category of CFR provisions with little to no effect. It returns to CFR social and labour rights being second-class rights.

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CJEU In Focus #11: C-196/23 Plamaro

Have you heard of C-196/23 Plamaro? If not, come discuss this landmark case gone missing in 2024 at European University Institute (and online) on 7 May at 4pm: tinyurl.com/y45249yp. This case is a brick, yet step back in the case-law on the CFR's #horizontality and EU labour right protection.

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This event is organised by the European Union Law Working Group and gives participants an opportunity to discuss the important judgments recently delivered by the CJEU.

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Der Graf von Luxemburg @grafvluxemburg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🔥 This judgment undoubtedly constitutes a landmark ruling. Its significance lies not only in the outcome—which, contrary to Advocate General Collins’s Opinion— finds Malta in breach of EU law, but also in several important aspects of the Court’s reasoning. 1/6

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Marc Steiert @mbsteiert.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Interested in EU social policy, social dialogue, past and present of EU Treaty-making or contestation of EU law? 🗯 We have something for you! 👋 Check ShaPE's working paper on preparation, drafting and implementation of the European social dialogue procedure in 153-155 TFEU: tinyurl.com/2s3sw5pd 📖

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The social partners and EU treaty-making : revisiting Maastricht through the archives

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Marc Steiert @mbsteiert.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Join us today at 2pm online or at the EU's Villa Salviati!

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Marc Steiert @mbsteiert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

EU law and history friends, join us for this intriguing, interdisciplinary workshop ! All online and in presence 🎥 I am really looking forward to chairing this event !

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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre is now on Bluesky! Born as a joint initiative of @eui-history.bsky.social and @eui-euarchives.bsky.social, we are unique research hub on European cooperation and integration Follow us to get the latest on our projects, opportunities, events and initiatives

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And feel free to get in touch if you want to know more about the documents and methods we used! 🙌

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All in all, an inadequate Opinion on adequate minimum wages. The pay exclusion should be narrow. The EU lawmaker carefully balanced it drafting the AMWD. Precedent shows the importance of the CJEU safeguarding the effectiveness of EU social policy competences. The AMWD must be maintained ⚖️.

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3) Context 💭: The AG inadequately depicts social Europe as context. He neglects its constitutionalization ever since the Rome Treaty, at least since 1975 Defrenne. He neglects the EU regulating for pay retrenchment in the euro-crisis and misunderstands the raison d'etre of the social policy title.

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2) Precedent ⚖️: The AG misconstrues EU competence to regulate with indirect effects on pay. We show the many EU instruments that have already regulated pay in a way which the AG would consider prohibited. The case-law has so far accepted or even strengthened them.

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The Social Partners as shapers and makers of Social Europe: discovering foundations and futures

This exclusion has always been uncertain, hides a political conflict submitted to the lawmaker's and CJEU's balancing and must - as in the earlier case-law - be construed narrowly. More on our work on EU Treaty-making and social Europe at: t.ly/m_72J

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The ShaPE project will examine the role social partners have played in treatymaking and lawmaking for social Europe The project is led by Professor Claire Kil

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In our view, the AMWD must be maintained. After all, a little learning is a dangerous thing. In our working paper, we show the inadequacy of three foundational elements of the AG's reasoning: history, precedent, and context.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing : AG Emiliou on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive (C-19/23, Opinion of 14 January 2025)

Minimum wages matter. Think cost of living 🧮. The EU Minimum Wages Directive promotes their adequacy. Yet AG Emiliou proposed its annulment in a legal riddle and risk to living conditions. Claire and I show here why his view is legally inadequate and misleads: t.ly/teRI1 The AMWD should stay. 🧵

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The opinion has already called a first response by @etuc-ces.bsky.social : www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

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It's a difficult legal issue. Yet EU Treaties are incompletely theorised agreements that appear with leeway to be interpreted in different ways. The Treaties' interpretors bear responsibility for this development.

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How is the AMWD promotion of collective bargaining just a means to the adequacy of *statutory* MWs? Where existing statutory MWs are a floor for bargaining, they are instrumental to bargaining not the opposite, if ever you sustain such a view.

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Beyond the AMWD's substance and 153(5) TFEU, I also find quite concerning: The AG's take on drafting history. Let me just say that there's more to unpack on the exclusion, but I am less and less sure whether practitioners can do justice to do this width without academic work. And...

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E.g. a much more creative and productive view could suggest that the AMWD for the first time articulates levels and regulators of labour law (instead of saying it just/mainly regulates pay). And this is even 'constitutional', see 152 TFEU, bargaining and consultation in the Charter...

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The opinion gives that feeling again that social Europe will have to bow to EU 'constitutional' law as understood without the social in this constitutional.

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