European Social Observatory (OSE)

'A clear vision is still missing of what we want to achieve with this European Health Union'

Jessica Martini (European Social Observatory) on her contribution to the recent publication 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024'

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'Is the Platform Work Directive a milestone? It will depend on - national implementation, the regulatory impetus that it has on further EU initiatives, and how much it will influence global standards'

Ilda Durri on her contribution to 'Social policy in the EU: state of play 2024'

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'Much more needs to be done in the area of social protection'

Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London) on his contribution to the recent publication 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024'

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🚀 Just launched! The 2025 edition of *Benchmarking Working Europe* is here! 💼📊
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This year’s flagship explores quality jobs for sustainable competitiveness.

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High-level panel at the launch of Benchmarking Working Europe 2025
🔹 Isabelle Schömann – Deputy General Secretary, ETUC
🔹 Mario Nava – Director-General, DG Employment, Commission
🔹 Evelyn Regner – Member of the EU Parliament (S&D)
🔹 Thérèse de Liedekerke – Deputy DG, BusinessEurope

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'The key message here is to try to understand how to balance new pressing priorities for the EU - including competitiveness, defence, preparedness - with the achievement of a strong social progress'

Sebastiano Sabato, Senior Researcher at the European Social Observatory

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'We need to mobilise resources at European level for #IndustrialPolicy, but also for a
#JustTransition'

ETUI Senior Researcher Béla Galgóczi on his contribution to the recent publication 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024'

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'We must keep being opportunistic utopians about social Europe'

Philosopher Philippe Van Parijs at the recent launch of 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024'

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'Can the EU balance the security and competitiveness paradigms without sidelining its social commitments?'

Slavina Spasova @ose-be.bsky.social on the crucial question posed by the latest edition of 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play' 📕

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And that's a wrap on this 25th edition of the #Bilan! A heartfelt thank you to all who contributed to this incredible volume! See you next year for #26. 🚀

The PWD cannot be characterized as a nothingburger. Whether it becomes a milestone will depend on domestic implementation, future EU initiatives echoing its regulatory impetus and its potential influence on global standards. It certainly makes a valuable contribution to regulating platform work.

The EHU has gone beyond the health security framework to include initiatives supporting the everyday resilience of health systems. Yet a coherent vision lacks, and the link with existing commitments to protect citizens’ health and ensure access to health care should be more strongly affirmed. #Bilan

💡The great concern is that with the incremental reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact, the limited fiscal resources available at national and EU level will be insufficient to close the green and social investment gap.💡#Bilan chapter 4 by Bela Galgoczi and Philippe Pochet

ULB professor Paul Dermine joins us online to present his chapter, 'The new EU Economic Governance Framework - Perspectives for Social Europe.' #Bilan

Insight #2 from 'A social assessment of the first von der Leyen Commission', by Paul Copeland: More needs to be delivered on the social protection and social inclusion aspect of the welfare paradigm, including in minimum incomes, but also beyond the world of work in areas such as housing and care. 💡

Insight #1 from #Bilan chapter 'A social assessment of the first von der Leyen Commission', by Paul Copeland: During the VDL1 Commission Social Europe has experienced a proliferation of soft modes of governance which come with weaknesses relating to their effectiveness and bureaucratic overload. 💡

Belgian philosopher Philippe Van Parijs is live, presenting #Bilan chapter #1: 💡We must accept that competitiveness matters, for the sake of both prosperity and geopolitical weight, but we must refuse to reduce Social Europe to being no more than the handmaiden of Competitive Europe.💡

#OSE's Slavina Spasova and #ETUI's Bart Vanhercke are taking the stage to officially launch this 25th edition of the #Bilan! Francesco Corti, Member of Cabinet EVP for Social Rights, Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, and Claes-Mikael Stahl, Deputy General Secretary at ETUC, will follow! 🙌

This morning, we kick off our annual #Bilan conference, in close collaboration with @etui.bsky.social ! Stay tuned for plenty of insights from our distinguished contributors throughout the day. ☀️