Horizontality of EU Charter Rights:
Technical ⚙️? Political 🗳️? Certainly important 🤔! 

The same holds true for EU labour rights ✊. 

I analyse (and critique their current state) in ELLJ with regard to the most recent addition to the case-law in *C-196/23 Plamaro* 📑:
tinyurl.com/7f9wf7sc

Interested in youth employment 🧒? EU Youth Guarantee or a Traineeship Directive ☝️? Labour law, EU economic governance or EU funding 📒?

For young people to be a force of transformation, access to work should not be pitted against work quality 🙌! Go look at the ETUI working paper.

Since the sovereign debt crisis, the EU has focused on regulating young people’s transitions to work. A new paper by Marc Steiert proposes guiding principles into the regulation of these work transitions. etui.org/ZLf

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

Have you heard of C-196/23 Plamaro?

If not, come discuss this landmark case gone missing in 2024 at European University Institute (and online) on 7 May at 4pm: tinyurl.com/y45249yp.

This case is a brick, yet step back in the case-law on the CFR's #horizontality and EU labour right protection.

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This judgment undoubtedly constitutes a landmark ruling.

Its significance lies not only in the outcome—which, contrary to Advocate General Collins’s Opinion— finds Malta in breach of EU law, but also in several important aspects of the Court’s reasoning.

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Interested in EU social policy, social dialogue, past and present of EU Treaty-making or contestation of EU law? 🗯

We have something for you! 👋

Check ShaPE's working paper on preparation, drafting and implementation of the European social dialogue procedure in 153-155 TFEU: tinyurl.com/2s3sw5pd 📖

Join us today at 2pm online or at the EU's Villa Salviati!

EU law and history friends, join us for this intriguing, interdisciplinary workshop ! All online and in presence 🎥

I am really looking forward to chairing this event !

The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre is now on Bluesky!

Born as a joint initiative of @eui-history.bsky.social and @eui-euarchives.bsky.social, we are unique research hub on European cooperation and integration

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Minimum wages matter. Think cost of living 🧮. The EU Minimum Wages Directive promotes their adequacy. Yet AG Emiliou proposed its annulment in a legal riddle and risk to living conditions.

Claire and I show here why his view is legally inadequate and misleads: t.ly/teRI1

The AMWD should stay. 🧵

Today was the day: a long-awaited opinion on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 2022/2041, and I think a concerning one as AG Emiliou suggests its annulment.

Competence was 'thin ice', DK and SV have legitimate concerns to protect social partnership, but there is a lot to unpack in:
t.ly/t6YLp

Today we pay tribute to one of the greats: Emilio Gabaglio.

General Secretary of the ETUC from 1991-2003.

A life in the service of the trade union movement: www.etui.org/publications...