By Dr Birte Böök Post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht University and content manager of the gender stream of the European Equality Law Network   When the COVID-19 crisis swept across the world in 2020, it quickly became clear that the global pandemic exacerbates existing inequalities in all areas of life. While comprehensive data is still lacking, …

Ben Paterson, European Social Policy MSc, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh   In 2019, the rate of workers at risk of in-work poverty within the twenty-seven European Union countries (and the UK) was 9.2%. The growing number of working households in poverty has facilitated a debate on an EU-wide minimum wage …

Iro Nestoros, European Social Policy MSc, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh   Introduction  The UN Secretary General António Guterres, in respect of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) emphasized that “In an interconnected world, none of us is safe until all of us are safe”. In the midst of a pandemic, against a …

Shirong Zhou,  European Social Policy MSc, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh   The pandemic has highlighted the need for an improved work-life balance policy in order to increase women’s participation in the labour market, thus guaranteeing a sustainable economic growth in the post-pandemic period within the EU. As the coronavirus pandemic …

By Janneke Gerards, Utrecht University Law School and Raphaële Xenidis, Edinburgh University Law School and iCourts, Copenhagen University   Early 2020, the European Commission recognized in the preamble of its White Paper on Artificial Intelligence that AI ‘entails a number of potential risks’ including ‘gender-based or other kinds of discrimination’. It therefore deemed ‘important to …

Europeanization at a Crossroads: Accession and Informality in Serbia Alexander Mesarovich, PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh While 2020 marks a dramatic year globally in Serbia it will be, in addition to the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year that protesters stormed the Parliament (Narodna Skupština) in protest against what was …

Covid-19 and the Future of EU Citizenship: In need of a common EU crisis-mode response? Dr. Katerina Kalaitzaki Early Career Fellow in European Union Law – University of Edinburgh Law School The blog post questions the extent to which the de-centralised response to Covid-19 in relation to the right to move and reside freely is …

What Does a UK Internal Market Mean for Regulatory Divergence in the UK?   Kenneth Armstrong – Professor of European Law, University of Cambridge The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill (‘UKIM Bill’) has been attracting a lot of headlines but not necessarily for the right reasons. The controversy has centred around those provisions which would …