Whatever lip-service may be paid to sustainable consuming, by far most European consumers still do their weekly shop in the big supermarket chains. A handful of groups have carved up this lucrative market and grown so powerful as to be able to drive producers’ selling prices steadily down. This is... Find out more

The European Working Time Directive has been grinding through a painful revision process since 2004. With Council and Parliament not seeing eye to eye, the buck was passed to the European social partners to come up with a proposed way out by September. Labour history shows us that working time has... Find out more

Business restructurings predate the outbreak of the financial then economic crisis in 2008. But they have certainly increased in number and intensity of late in most European countries either because of real economic difficulties or because the business cycle offered a perfect excuse for shedding... Find out more

Simplifying and improving the EU regulatory environment is one of the Barroso Commission’s main instruments within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy. Dubbed "better regulation", the initiative could allow businesses to save billions of euros, according to the Commission. This issue uncovers the... Find out more

In health terms, we have been seeing for the past twenty years or so that the gulf between the well-off and the working classes has been growing. HesaMag, the ETUI’s occupational health magazine, is using its latest issue to spotlight how working conditions and the new ways of organising work impact... Find out more

The contract cleaning industry is a microcosm of the worst health impacts of changing working conditions over the last thirty years. Find out more

Mesmerised by technologies that can help it live the dream of becoming the world’s most competitive economy yet fearful of a health disaster without precedent, will the European Union manage to strike the right balance? Find out more