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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 4d

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...

www.desmog.com

Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 4d

www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...

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...

www.humanite.fr

Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 4d

Saisonarbeit: Subventionen für Ausbeuter | taz.de

taz.de

Kritischer, unabhängiger Journalismus der linken Nachrichtenseite taz: Analysen, Hintergründe, Kommentare, Interviews, Reportagen. Genossenschaft seit 1992.

taz.de

Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Sep 4

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)

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.

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jul 23

@kurtvandaele.bsky.social @valepuligna.bsky.social @standespiegelaere.bsky.social @huwthomas.bsky.social @vdoellgast.bsky.social @rkgwork.bsky.social @andrewwatteu.bsky.social @pablogracia.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social @progintl.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

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 ...

doi.org

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · May 16

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

www.nytimes.com

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · May 4

@abieler.bsky.social @andduer.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @felixulrich.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social @hermannc.bsky.social @mbsteiert.bsky.social @ksurber.bsky.social @wstreeckblog.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @jensarnholtz.bsky.social

Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · May 2

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 ...

www.blaetter.de

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · May 2

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 ...

www.blaetter.de

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · May 2

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 ...

www.blaetter.de

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

: meet1495.webex.com/meet1495/j.p...

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

www.youtube.com

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Mar 23

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

www.youtube.com

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Feb 26

@vdoellgast.bsky.social
@bigmacca.bsky.social @mfratzscher.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @epsu.bsky.social @ksurber.bsky.social @gscheiring.bsky.social @martinsandbu.ft.com @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @lukaslehner.bsky.social
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Feb 26

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 · Feb 24

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.

www.socialeurope.eu

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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · Feb 24

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.

www.socialeurope.eu

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Feb 1

Listen @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @laviniastan.bsky.social on our @cambridgeup.bsky.social book

newbooksnetwork.com/politicising...

@onachtwey.bsky.social @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social @rkgwork.bsky.social @nikhammer.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social @dorobohle.bsky.social

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

newbooksnetwork.com

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jan 19

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....

doi.org

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Jan 11

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.

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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Dec 3

Not many national anthems refer to inward migration …

„Some have come from a land beyond the wave, Sworn to be free, no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave“

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Dec 3

☘️ Citizenship Ceremony 2024

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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · Nov 30

Thanks a lot Santiago. I hope your @cornellilr.bsky.social students will find the book interesting too @bigmacca.bsky.social @vdoellgast.bsky.social
@isabelmperera.bsky.social @ianithacagreer.bsky.social

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