Europe podcast| #40: The Battle for Social Success
BNR’s European Commissioners Stefan and Geert Jan traveled to Brussels this week. They end up in the red brawl room of Agnes Jongerius. Also table delivery: the green Kim from Sparrentak. How do these MEPs want to make our union more social?
What’s going on?
It is a week in which social affairs are prominent on the Brussels agenda. Thus, there has been a rise of the European Commission, which will become this Thursday, December 9, to give platform workers more and better labor rights. Think of couriers, deliverers and ‘independent’ drivers. But the Commission is also examining the employment conditions for self-employed workers in general. Also think of freelance journalists.
Within what is known to her, Van Sparrentak appears to be able to support the Commission’s proposal. She is still very concerned about the use of algorithms by the companies that use these platform employees.
Minimum wages
everything, the process surrounding minimum wages has already progressed further and has entered a new phase. Rapporteur Jongerius (once again) goes into battle with the next one, and hopes for a breakthrough in the French battle in the new year. Van Sparrentak hopes eventually for a ‘living minimum wage’ and at 14 euros for the Netherlands. Jongerius included the 12 euros with which Scholz mounted a (successful) campaign in Germany, ‘tour’. But why are there also countries not urging for binding European countries?
Social success?
With the Social Summit in Porto still on your mind and the attention for social files where the struggle for social successes (at European) is on the agenda? We present it to the guests in the brawl room:
Agnes Jongerius, MEP in the S&D faction on behalf of the PvdA.
Kim van Sparrentak, European Parliamentarian in the Greens/EFTA, on behalf of GroenLinks.
The fortieth episode of BNR Europa (formerly Europa Podcast)
Hahn and De Vries keep a close eye on Brussels, the European Union, Schengen, the eurozone and the fringes of our continent. In addition to the topic of conversation, such as this time the first time Federal Chancellor, the dark clouds over Ukraine, attention is also paid to ‘music’ from our continent. And this episode we go to Poland. You can see the entire playlist of this horrific euro trash by the way here included in our Spotify list.
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