Roland Erne

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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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.

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
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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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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".

“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...

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 “...

My take on the EU Court’s minimum wage verdict from Luxemburg

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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.

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Thanks so much Stijn warm regards from Ireland Roland

Politicising Commodification | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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!

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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...

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse - @desmog.com

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see also the German version in @taz.de and the French version in @humanite.fr

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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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.

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)

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The exposure to horizontal market pressures in the EU economy alone cannot explain the rise in collective transnational protest actions. Rather, increasing vertical political pressures triggered by commodifying policy interventions of EU authorities play a key role in driving transnational action.

Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? - Roland Erne, Jörg Nowak, 2025 This paper draws on a novel database of 360 collective transnational socioeconomic protest actions across Europe that we found in a comprehensive, multilingual ...

We have explained its methodology here
 
Erne, R and Nowak J (2025). Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? European Journal of Industrial Relations, OnlineFirst, doi.org/10.1177/0959...

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

Opinion | Romania Is About to Experience Disaster

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On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections

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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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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

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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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

Here's the link to follow the healthcare crisis conference in the European Parliament 2pm Brussels time online:

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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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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.

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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

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

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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.

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.

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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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....

New open access chapter

Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?

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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...

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.