The paper examines why, and under what conditions, certain interest groups adopt positive positions on international economic issues. It provides a case study of how UK trade unions formed their preferences on membership of the EMU. Previous explanations of this have tended to emphasise the...

European labour movements are under severe pressure as a result of the global financial and Eurozone crises but to what extent have relations of transnational solidarity been established in this process? This essay will assess the response of European labour movements to the Eurozone crises and...

Die Gewerkschaften in Europa befinden sich in schwerer See. Arbeitslosigkeit, prekäre Beschäftigung sowie die Zunahme sozialer Ungleichheit stellen sie vor ähnliche Herausforderungen. Zugleich haben sich ihre jeweiligen nationalen Handlungsmöglichkeiten im Gefolge der Krisenpolitik innerhalb...

Though the response of trade unions to activation policies seems a crucial test of their capacity to adapt to the challenges of post-industrialisation, the issue has to date received little systematic attention in the welfare state or labour market policy literature. This paper takes a first...

This cumulative dissertation investigates transnational solidarity in times of crises in the context of the European Union (EU). In order to realize solidarity policies that are democratically legitimate, the EU requires the support of its population. To that end, the dissertation at hand takes...

In the course of European integration, national trade unions in Europe founded the umbrella organization of the European Trade Union Confederation in order to establish common political positions. Drawing on the case of supranational politics of services regulation, this study shows how...

Die Europäische Union ist derzeit mit einer der schwierigsten ökonomischen Krisen ihrer Geschichte konfrontiert: Arbeitslosenraten und Armutszahlen nehmen zu, während Sozialsysteme und arbeitsrechtliche Regulierungsinstanzen (insbesondere in den sogenannten "Krisenländern") abgebaut werden....