Women’s Future in the EU Labor Force: Maternity Leave & the EU Work-Life Balance Directive
Laila Latif, MSc Comparative Public Policy, University of Edinburgh
August 2022 marked the deadline of a 3-year window given to EU Member Stat…
Category: Health and Social Policy
Europe 2030 Poverty Reduction: The Threat of Housing Financialisation
Jessie McKay, MSc International and European Politics, University of Edinburgh
In 2021, 95.4 million people faced the risk of poverty or soci…
Invisible Young Carers in Europe: What Hides Their Existence?
Nagisa Osaki, MSc Comparative Public Policy, University of Edinburgh
Children responsible for caring for their families or others in the hom…
Brexit and the Interpretation of Domestic Rights
Niall O’Connor
Brexit and Rights Engagement Network
It might be thought that Brexit would have very little impact on the interpretation of dom…
Enforceability of Workers’ Rights after Brexit
Rebecca Zahn
Brexit and Rights Engagement Network
In the run-up to the Brexit referendum, workers’ rights were invoked repeatedly by both sid…
Brexit and EU Social Policy: Uncertainty for the UK, Opportunities for the EU
Pieter Pecinovsky
LERU Brexit Seminar
The relationship between the EU and the UK has always been characterised by a troublesome dialogue of am…
The ‘Headscarf Rulings’: Did the Court of Justice Really Ban Headscarves in the Workplace?
Rebecca Zahn
The recent EU court rulings on wearing headscarves in the workplace demonstrate the conflict between enabling EU economic freed…
What Future Has the European Union after its Sixtieth Anniversary – Back to the Future?
Colin Imrie
The main challenge facing today’s European Union is to find ways to bring together the diverging interests of its many members, wri…
Scotland’s Minimum Pricing – Balancing Public Policy and the Single Market
Arianna Andreangeli
In-Depth Analysis
The Court of Session’s ruling on minimum pricing of alcohol in Scotland has upheld that the policy is an …
The Deal on EU Immigration and Welfare is Symbolic – But Brexit Won’t Solve the ‘Problem’ of EU Immigration Either
Christina Boswell
The free movement provisions of the UK’s EU renegotiation are unlikely to reduce EU migration to the UK because they do not fo…