In 2024, the EU adopted a much-debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates...

For more than a decade, scholars have recurrently debated the social dimension of EU governance. While some have observed a ‘socialisation’ of European reform advice, others argue that social and l...

13th Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on the European Union, 1 – 3 July 2026, Università di Catania

Transposition of the much-debated EU Directive on adequate minimum wages, adopted in October 2022, was due by November 2024. This article examines how the Minim...

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

The Directive on adequate minimum wages (AMWD) of October 2022 epitomises a shift in European wage governance from negative integration, focused on competitiveness and inflation-fighting, towards a...