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labour euobserver eu observer menu search sections eu politics eu and the world economy opinion investigations europe today podcast inside euobserver account newsletters subscribe labour follow topic by email as trump weaponises us law abroad brussels faces sovereignty test 6 august 2026 by bruce stokes by using forced labour claims to justify tariffs and threaten europe s digital and climate rules washington is testing whether the eu dares to turn its own powerful regulatory arsenal against american companies labour tariffs tech trade trump us extreme heat puts 800bn hole in europe s economy as germany france and italy bear the brunt 6 august 2026 by petra pavlovičová europe s failure to shield workers from extreme heat is becoming an 800bn threat to jobs wages and national budgets as farms and construction sites grind to a halt environment germany labour society how pakistan s slave like cotton labour still feeds eu fashion despite new rules 16 july 2026 by stefano valentino pakistani women and children pick cotton in bonded labour for a few euros a day while europe s biggest fashion brands exploit legal loopholes to keep their clothes and their consciences officially clean eu politics feature labour pakistan society listen can europe remain prosperous with a rapidly ageing population 15 july 2026 by léa marchal as eu leaders talk tough on cutting immigration their own data shows that without more foreign workers europe s pension systems hospitals and care homes could buckle under the weight of its ageing citizens demography labour migration podcast society meps back new eu wide 28th regime businesses plan but fear a european delaware 9 july 2026 by benjamin fox meps have also warned against the eu s new corporate 28th regime being used to create a european equivalent to the us state of delaware labour society at 32 c productivity drops 40 why europe s heatwave is now a workplace crisis 26 june 2026 by petra pavlovičová trains buckle schools shut and outdoor workers struggle through 40 c days trade unions and scientists are warning that europe s heatwave is no longer just a weather story but a full showdown over who is responsible for keeping workers safe environment labour society eu youth job schemes miss invisible young people and fail to track long term results auditors warn 4 june 2026 by gaia neiman youth unemployment is going down but many are not even looking for work a new report found that the eu can t monitor them and what progress has been made is not being measure long term economy labour eu commission accused of cherry picking us eu data to sell omnibus deregulation drive 4 june 2026 by staffan dahllof europe s alleged competitiveness gap with the united states and china has become a defining theme in brussels policymaking but experts argue that the use of selective data to support simplification is close to political manipulation and definitely cherry picking analysis economy labour us we are barely making it eu poverty strategy falling short of target 20 may 2026 by nikolaj nielsen we are barely making it admitted roxana mînzatu the eu commissioner for social rights and skills who presented a plan earlier this month to eradicate poverty by 2025 throughout the eu eu politics housing labour eu not lagging us in ai productivity gains lagarde tells meps 26 february 2026 by wester van gaal we are not yet seeing the waves of redundancies that are feared european central bank chief christine lagarde said but stressed europe was benefitting for ai productivity gains on a par with the us and china ai digital ecb labour brussels calls it simplification it s actually a rollback of workers rights 25 february 2026 by antonio aloisi and valerio de stefano brussels drive to cut digital burdens is spilling into labour law a recent paper by lobby group businesseurope calls for a sweeping labour market omnibus to reduce obligations under eu social law raising fears that competitiveness rhetoric could undermine workers rights and weaken europe s social model economy labour society who pays for europe s ageing inside the growing battle over pension reforms 2 january 2026 by wouter van de klippe as europe s baby boomers enter retirement experts agree that reforms are needed to ensure the sustainability of european pensions however there is considerable debate on which reforms should be implemented and how they impact elderly poverty and pension inequality explainer labour a burnt out europe is a four day working week within reach 2 january 2026 by ieva kniukštien lena kyriakidi and wojciech podgórski europe debates shorter workweeks as poland pilots a four day model without pay cuts following mixed experiences and perspectives from the uk france spain lithuania and greece balancing productivity wellbeing and competitiveness concerns analysis labour the generative ai transformation will only work if workers trust it 18 december 2025 by uni europa influential investigative independent euobserver is a online non profit news outlet reporting on the european union labour stakeholder europe won t innovate more by firing people faster 17 december 2025 by claes mikael ståhl the argument is that europe underperforms in tech and biotech because it is too expensive to fire people that may sound intuitively appealing but it is profoundly misleading labour opinion listen is europe ready for the four day work week 11 december 2025 by evi kiorri some european countries are already testing the four day workweek and the results are in higher productivity happier employees and less burnout but while some are working less others are working more like in greece where a six day workweek has been introduced in certain sectors labour podcast eu quality jobs roadmap dismissed as empty rhetoric 4 december 2025 by hannah kriwak the eu commission presented its strategy for better jobs in the bloc on thursday but until the the quality jobs act is published unions and ngos are on the fence about it labour the dogeization of europe the plan to rollback the eu s own institutions 2 december 2025 by alberto alemanno what distinguishes the current review is its conceptual ambition floating the idea of ending lifelong civil service status for new hires a move that if extended to the whole institution would signal a shift from a permanent independent bureaucracy to a flexible temporary workforce aligned with shifting political priorities warns alberto alemanno column labour 17 years on and no resolution in sight for eu equal treatment directive 1 december 2025 by hannah kriwak even after discussions and negotiations dating back to 2008 member states in the european council couldn t come to a unanimous position on the planned eu equal treatment directive labour letter right of reply from amazon 1 december 2025 by anneliese hellwig schuster influential investigative independent euobserver is a online non profit news outlet reporting on the european union digital labour opinion older 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