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Roland Erne

@rolanderne.bsky.social
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Professor of European Integration and Employment Relations University College Dublin www.erc-europeanunions.eu

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
www.politico.eu/article/hung... @jenszalai.bsky.social @karalabe.bsky.social @rebeccatamas.bsky.social @jctmik.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @rebeccatamas.bsky.social @mikloskiss.bsky.social @balazsorban.com @janosmarton.bsky.social @gscheiring.bsky.social @hrw.org @biffpm.bsky.social
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Hungary’s unfair election: Why Viktor Orbán is so hard to beat
The prime minister’s rivals say his total control over the state and the media allows him to influence elections in his favor.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Neues EuGH Urteil: Belohnung für höhere Löhne » workzeitung.ch Firmen, die ihre Beschäftigten besser bezahlen als die Konkurrenz, dürfen bei der Erteilung von öffentlichen Aufträgen bevorzugt werden. Zum Urteil kam es, weil Arbeitgeber #Ortuella verklagten. @etuc-ces.bsky.social @social.verdi.de
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Unions take campaign against draft EU law that creates a 28th virtual member state to facilitate business opt-outs of the law of the land to Commissioner’s home city @etuc-ces.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @europeanjournalists.org @sabinenuss.bsky.social etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
People are clear about their priorities: cost of living, jobs, public health. Yet the Commission is pushing #austerity and a corporate agenda. This doesn’t match people’s concerns. Europe needs a #PublicServicesAgenda for people - not deregulation for big business. 📷 Eurobarometer 2025/Q4 survey
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EFBWW @efbww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
✊Workers are mobilising in Strasbourg for a decisive moment in EU labour policy 📢 The moment to act is now Join us to #StopExploitation ! @effat.org @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Unless EU regulates tech platforms, they … damage democracy. Nor should Europe sacrifice social safety or quality public services on the altar of competitiveness. Nor should it abandon the green deal. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... @brigidlaffan.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org
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Brigid Laffan: Europe is in danger of becoming a plaything, not a player
Donald Trump’s administration wants to erase the achievements of European integration and destroy the project
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/11/eu-c... @rolanderne.bsky.social
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EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
‘The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered a landmark verdict on the EU Minimum Wage Directive that I would characterise as “...
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Thorben Albrecht @thorbenalbrecht.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
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EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
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EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“Workers would not have understood why the EU had the power to cut wages and to decentralise collective bargaining after the 2008 crisis but not the power to provide a framework for advocate minimum wages and higher collective bargaining coverage" said Prof Roland Erne www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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SIPTU warns of industrial unrest due to cost of living
The incoming General Secretary of the country's largest trade union, SIPTU, has warned of significant periods of industrial unrest because the cost of living crisis is "screwing workers".
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My take on the EU Court’s minimum wage verdict from Luxemburg www.linkedin.com/posts/roland...
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Overall, I would summarise today’s EU court verdict on the EU minimum wage directive as 1) “Social Europe 2 : Liberal Europe 1” 2) another example of an unintended but still politically motivated… ...
Overall, I would summarise today’s EU court verdict on the EU minimum wage directive as 1) “Social Europe 2 : Liberal Europe 1” 2) another example of an unintended but still politically motivated “...
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In 20 minutes, we will know the the verdict of European court of justice on the legality of the EU directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union. @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social @verfassungsblog.de @donatodc.bsky.social @prossertj.bsky.social @vdoellgast.bsky.social
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We are thrilled that 'Politicising Commodification' has received an Honourable Mention for the 2025 July Brian Farrell Prize for the Best Book Published in Political Science Thank you @psairishpol.bsky.social for this honour! Learn more about it cup.org/3HJWFnN @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Politicising Commodification | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse - @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r... see also the German version in @taz.de and the French version in @humanite.fr
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...
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Dans l’agriculture, la traite des êtres humains bat son plein - L'Humanité
Durant cinq mois, Mohammed, travailleur marocain, a été victime de traite dans les champs du sud de la France. Il témoigne pour la première fois auprès de l’Humanité. Pour les centa...
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Saisonarbeit: Subventionen für Ausbeuter | taz.de
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Kritischer, unabhängiger Journalismus der linken Nachrichtenseite taz: Analysen, Hintergründe, Kommentare, Interviews, Reportagen. Genossenschaft seit 1992.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Just back from the UACES conference, were our new book got an honourable mention Erne, R., Stan, S., Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Maccarrone, V. (2024) Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. Cambridge UP (open access)
UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025 
DAILY ROUND-UP

Our 2025 Award Winners

Our Chair, Toni Haastrup, had the pleasure of presenting our 2025 winners with their awards, recognising their exceptional contributions to European studies.
Honourable Mentions

An Honourable Mention for the UACES Best Book Award goes to:

• Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone for Politicising Commodification - European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency.

These works represent further exceptional scholarship and talent within the European studies community.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database is now available open access:   Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o.... On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections
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Opinion | Romania Is About to Experience Disaster
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@abieler.bsky.social @andduer.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @felixulrich.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social @hermannc.bsky.social @mbsteiert.bsky.social @ksurber.bsky.social @wstreeckblog.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @jensarnholtz.bsky.social
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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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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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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Pictures from today European demonstration against the commodification of public #healthcare services @epsu.bsky.social @fagforbundet.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social @sudsantesociaux35.bsky.social @bigmacca.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @greens-efa.eu
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.youtube.com/live/3oIBKSP... European Parliament seminar on the attack on the minimum wage directive. Commissioner Nicolas Schmit who has drafted the Directive is speaking first. My contribution is at 1:02:00. @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
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S&D Seminar: Symposium on the Minimum Wages Directive Court Case | 27/03/2025 | EN
YouTube video by Socialists and Democrats
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I will be speaking live in the EU Parliament on the attack on the EU minimum wage directive this Thursday 27-3 at 9:30 @vdoellgast.bsky.social @valepuligna.bsky.social @mfratzscher.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social @felixulrich.bsky.social @bigmacca.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/3oIBKSP...
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S&D Seminar: Symposium on the Minimum Wages Directive Court Case | 27/03/2025 | EN
YouTube video by Socialists and Democrats
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If the EU Court cancels the minimum wage directive, the popular legitimacy of the EU will be in tatters. Workers will not understand why the many business-friendly EU governance prescriptions on wage cuts are legal while a labour-friendly directive on adequate minimum wages is not.
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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be? Spoiler: @rolanderne.bsky.social demolishes the Advocate General's case seeking to annul the Directive and backs the @etuc-ces.bsky.social case that the AG's opinion is an 'outlier' www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-minim...
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The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?
Court challenge to EU minimum wage directive exposes tensions between legal interpretation, political compromise and social policy.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Listen @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @laviniastan.bsky.social on our @cambridgeup.bsky.social book newbooksnetwork.com/politicising... @onachtwey.bsky.social @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social @rkgwork.bsky.social @nikhammer.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social @dorobohle.bsky.social
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Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
New open access chapter Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda? Roland Erne @profmicheleford.bsky.social Tamara Kay @bigmacca.bsky.social @madelinemoontarp.bsky.social Christoph Scherrer @marcelvanderlinden.bsky.social doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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Chapter 32: Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?
The role of regional organisations in support of the decent work agenda depends not only on their enforcement power but also on the prevailing views and the balance of social class forces within them....
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just published in “Governance”. Our analysis shows that the shift to a new economic governance regime after 2008 provided EU leaders with new tools that allowed them to revive their stalled rail and water commodification agenda; at the price of accentuating the EU democratic & justice deficit.
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Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water
In the mid-2000s, the Single Market Program and European Monetary Union lost momentum, as public services advocates increasingly succeeded in tempering attempts to liberalize public utilities through...
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
☘️ Citizenship Ceremony 2024
☘️ Citizenship ceremony 2024
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Get @blueskythinking.bsky.social interview on EU labour politics & protests here bluesky-thinking.com/bluesky-book... @etuc-ces.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social @adamprz.bsky.social @shiels.bsky.social @efjeurope.bsky.social @felixulrich.bsky.social @ktbberlin.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social —
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BlueSky BookShelf Meets: Roland Erne | Bluesky Thinking
We sit down with Roland Erne to discuss his latest book and it's implications for policymakers across Europe
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Le bilan saignant d’Elon Musk Le Canard enchaîné www.lecanardenchaine.fr/internationa...
Le bilan saignant d’Elon Musk / Le Canard enchaîné

https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/international/49448-le-bilan-saignant-delon-musk
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Free Download @ilrreview.bsky.social Book Review Forum: Politicising Commodification. @cambridgeup.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @valepuligna.bsky.social @bigmacca.bsky.social @felixulrich.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A Book Review Forum on Politicising Commodification - Cornel Ban, Élodie Béthoux, Martin Rhodes, Miguel Martínez Lucio, Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó, Vincenzo Maccarrone, 2024
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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