Abstract In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member ...
Sven Schreurs
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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From the Gobi to the Sahel: Can China's anti-desertification model work in Africa? [PDF]
Zhu AL +9 more
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To Be or Not to Be a Worker: Legal Uncertainty and Precarious Employment in the European Union
Abstract Precarious employment has gradually moved onto the European Union (EU) policy agenda, so far culminating in the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (the Pillar). However, the effectiveness of these renewed social ambitions is challenged by legal uncertainty and entangled in ongoing political and legal disputes over the ...
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen +2 more
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Detecting FIMI: A methodological framework for testing OSINT tools in TTPs detection. [PDF]
Margaros K +6 more
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
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The Worldviews of Elites: Differences Between Inheritors and Newcomers. [PDF]
Otero G.
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Source over Quantity? The Effect of Civil Society Funding on Access to the EU Commission
Abstract The European Commission builds relationships with civil society organisations (CSOs) through policy‐relevant meetings and funding. Through these relationships, the Commission seeks to obtain expertise, efficient input and legitimacy for its policy initiatives.
Sandra Martinez‐Böhme
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Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]
Rogei DS.
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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. [PDF]
Schneider KR +66 more
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