Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
Professor of European Integration and Employment Relations University College Dublin https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu/
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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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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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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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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...
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
✊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
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
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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EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/11/eu-c... @rolanderne.bsky.social
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 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...
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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“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...
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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My take on the EU Court’s minimum wage verdict from Luxemburg www.linkedin.com/posts/roland...
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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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
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
Politicising Commodification | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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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
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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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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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)
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
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o.... On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections
Opinion | Romania Is About to Experience Disaster
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Roland Erne@rolanderne.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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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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...
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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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.
Tom Jenkins@tomoljenkins.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
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 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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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...
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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