Keynote Lectures of ERC Team Members

Erne, R. (2021) 'Social State of the Union'. EuroMemo Group 27th Annual Conference, Virtual, 14 September.

Erne, R. (2019) 'Vertical and Horizontal Integration. The EU's New Economic Governance Regime and countervailing collective action'. International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) European Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, 5 September.

Erne, R. (2018) 'Labour Politics and the EU's new economic governance regime. Methodological innovations and challenges for our European Research Council project'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC), Leuven, Belgium, 10 September.

Erne, R. (2018) 'La politique du travail et la nouvelle gouvernance économique européenne: un nouveau projet ERC (Conseil européen de la recherche)'. Study Days of the Association Francaise de Sociologie (AFS) and the Groupement d'Interet Scientifiques (GESTES), Paris, France, 6 September. Full text.

Stan, S. (2019) 'Europe as a transnational health care space'. 3rd Health Benefits Convention, Vienna, Austria, 18 December.


Conferences/Workshops of our ERC Project

Béthoux, E., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2019) 'Workers and Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates'. ERC WorkshopLabour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime', Florence, Italy, 30 October.

Erne, R. (2019) 'Horizontal and Vertical Integration. A pivotal distinction for the understanding of NEG'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime', Florence, Italy, 28 October.

Erne, R. (2019) 'The Multinational Firm - The Archetype for the New EU Governance Regime?' UCD Spring Seminar Series, Dublin, Ireland, 12 June.

Erne, R. and Blaser, M. (2018) 'Direct Democracy and Trade Union Action'. Seminar on the special issue 24-2, 2018 of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Dublin, Ireland, 11 October.

Golden, D. (2019) 'From 'Governance by Law' to 'Governance by Benchmarks': Implications for (Public) Transport'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 29 October.

Jordan, J., Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2019) 'Has the European Semester been socialised? Prescriptions for Germany, Italy, Ireland and Romania on Employment Relations'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 29 October.

Nowak, J. (2019) 'Analysing European Labour Protests: What is to be done?' ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 30 October.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2019) 'The EU's new economic governance in healthcare: points of crystallization for contentious collective action?'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 29 October.

Szabó, I., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2019) 'EU Governance and Trade Union-Social Movement Coalitions: Explaining the Unequal Success of the 'Right2Water' and the 'Fair Transport' ECIs'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 30 October.

Szabó, I. (2019) 'Has the European Semester been socialised? Prescriptions for Germany, Italy, Ireland and Romania in Water Services'. ERC Workshop: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime, Florence, Italy, 29 October.

Szabó, I. (2018) 'Trade unions and the sovereign power of the state'. Seminar on the special issue 24-2, 2018 of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Dublin, Ireland, 11 October.


Conference/Workshop Presentations of ERC/IRC Team Members

Béthoux, E., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2019) 'A primordial attachment to the nation? French and Irish workers and trade unions in past EU referendum debates'. European Studies Centre Deakin Fellow Conference, Oxford, UK, 30 May.

Erne, R. (2024) 'Politicising commodification. European governance and labour politics from the financial crisis to the Covid emergency'. The Future of European Social Citizenship. EUSocialCit Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19 January.

Erne, R. (2024) 'Politicising commodification. European governance and labour politics from the financial crisis to the Covid emergency'. Workshop 'Kollektive Rechte im Europa der Polykrise', FU Berlin, Germany, 11 January.

Erne, R. (2023) 'Resurgence of class conflict but not on factory floor. Socio-economic protests in the era of the EU’s new economic governance regime'. Conference 'Still the resurgence of class conflict? New identities, new interests, new worker mobilisation', SNS, Florence, Italy, 17 November.

Erne, R. and Nowak, J. (2023) 'Structural Determinants of Transnational Solidarity. Pan-European Socioeconomic Protests since 1997'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2023, Durham, UK, 19 September.

Erne, R. (2023) 'EU Labour Politics and NEG Prescriptions across Policy Areas and Sectors (2009-2019)'. EMLS Research Workshop 'Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime', University College Dublin, 31 May. 

Erne, R. (2021) 'Horizontal and Vertical Integration. Understanding the EU's new Economic Governance Regime and Countervailing Collective Action'. Council for European Studies (CES) 27th International Conference of Europeanists, Virtual, 25 June.

Erne, R. (2020) 'Equal Rights for Whom? Equal Pay for Workers vs. Equal Market Access Rights for Firms in the Common EU-CH Market'. Research Unit Comparative Public Policy (CoPP)/Master of Public Policy and Social Change (MPPSC) Joint Seminar Series, Tübingen University, Germany, 9 December.

Erne, R. (2020) 'Explaining EU politization in terms of sovereignty conflicts? A word of caution'. 'Conflicts of Sovereignty in the European Union (SovEU)' International ConferenceBrussels, Belgium, 19 November. See video.

Erne, R. (2020) 'Equal rights for whom? Equal pay for posted workers vs. equal market access rights for firms in the bilateral EU-CH agreements'. Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7 May.

Erne, R. (2019) 'Vertical vs Horizontal Modes of European Integration. A Pivotal Distinction that Helps Identifying Drivers for Transnational Collective Action'. Colloquium of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany, 5 December.

Erne, R. (2019) 'SDGs and their implementation: The tension between labour policy and politics' UCD SDGs Research Seminar Series 2019, Dublin, Ireland, 14 May.

Erne, R. (2018) 'Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime. Methodological innovations and challenges'. UCD Geary Research Day 2018, Dublin, Ireland, 13 December.

Erne, R. (2018) 'EU Governance - der blinde Fleck, der schwierig in den Blick zu kriegen ist'. Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) Herbstforum 2018, Berlin, Germany, 20 November.

Erne, R. (2018) 'From horizontal to vertical EU integration. Opportunities and threats for organised labour'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September.

Erne, R. (2018) 'From Horizontal Market Integration to Vertical Integration Effected through the Direct Surveillance of Member States. Labour Movements and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime'. 19th International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology 2018, Toronto, Canada, 17 July.

Erne, R. and Jordan, J. (2018) 'Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime'. UCD HRM & Employment Relations Research Seminar, Dublin, Ireland, 14 June.

Erne, R. and Maccarrone, V. (2021) 'Plus ça change... Continuity and Change in the EU Governance of Labour after the Pandemic'. Internal seminar, ETUI, Brussels, Belgium, 1 December.

Erne, R. and Maccarrone, V. (2021) 'Plus ça change... Continuity and Change in the EU Governance of Labour after the Pandemic'. 15th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Virtual, 2 September.

Erne, R. and Nowak, J. (2022) 'What factors are driving the increasing number of transnational labour protests in Europe (1997-2019)?' 13th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) European Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 8 September.

Erne, R. and Nowak, J. (2022) 'Structural determinants of transnational solidarity. Explaining the rise in socioeconomic protests across European borders since 1997'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 21 April.

Erne, R., Golden, D. and Szabó, I. (2020) 'Commodification of public services through the EU's New Economic Governance regime - EU policy interventions in the water and transport sector in Germany, Italy, Ireland and Romania'. University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Virtual Conference, 9 September.

Galanti, C. (2022) 'Mobilizations in the social care sector during the pandemic. Negotiating the ideal worker model', guest lecture in a module at the University of Padua, Italy, 21 November.

Galanti, C. and Naughton, M. (2022) 'Using the unions. Healthcare struggles in Italy and Spain between trade unionism and self-organization'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2022 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 22 July.

Galanti, C. (2022) 'Still asking for more Europe. Unions' responses to austerity and privatization in the Italian healthcare sector'. 6th Italian Society of Economic Sociology (SISEC) Conference, Bologna, Italy, 8 June.

Galanti, C. (2022) 'Social care workers’ mobilizations during the pandemic. Investigating challenges to the «social care worker ideal» through ethnographic fieldwork and participatory methods', guest lecture in a module at the University of Bolzano, Italy, Virtual, 6 May.

Galanti, C. and Naughton, M. (2022) 'Using the unions. Healthcare struggles in Italy and Spain between trade unionism and self-organization'. 40th International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Padua, Italy, 22 April.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'Le mobilitazioni del personale della cura durante la pandemia fra classe e professioni [The mobilisations of care workers during the pandemic between class and professions]'. Seminar 'Health professions between public representation and working conditions. The Covid-19 experience in historical perspective', University of Florence, Virtual, 13 December.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'Mobilizing As Professionals Or As Workers? Collective Action Of The Healthcare Personnel In Italy During The Pandemic Between Professional Identity And Class Solidarity'. 15th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Virtual, 2 September.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'Leveraging the EU and Domesticating the Scale. Understanding the Target of Italian Healthcare Struggles'. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 33rd Conference, Virtual, 2 July.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'The scale of healthcare struggles. Understanding the disjuncture between national mobilizations and European economic governance policy-making in the Italian case'. Public Sector Employment Relations Study Group, 19th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress, Lund, Sweden, 21 June.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'Rivendicare il lavoro o rivendicare la professione? La tensione fra normalizzazione e distinzione nelle mobilitazioni del personale sanitario durante la pandemia [Mobilising as workers or as professionals? Healthcare workers' struggles during the pandemic between normalisation and distinction]'. 5th Italian Society of Economic Sociology (SISEC) Conference, Catania, Italy, 11 June.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'National heroes, disposable workers. How collective action in the health and social care sector during the pandemic negotiated with the self-sacrificing worker ideal'. UCD College of Business PhD Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 30 April.

Galanti, C. (2021) 'Solidarietà organizzata. Il ruolo delle reti e delle esperienze militanti nelle mobilitazioni della sanità durante la pandemia [Organised solidarity. The role of activist networks and experiences in healthcare mobilisations during the pandemic]'. Seminar 'Non torneremo alla normalità: nuove traiettorie dei movementi sociali in pandemia [We won't return to normality: new trajectories of social movements in pandemics]', University of Bologna, Italy, 29 March.

Galanti, C. (2020) 'Fare ricerca sulle lotte nella sanità durante la pandemia. Alcune riflessioni circa le forme dell'azione collettiva e la negoziazione dell'accesso al campo [Researching healthcare struggles during the pandemic. Some reflections on collective action and access to the field]'. 8th Italian Society for Applied Anthropology (SIAA) Conference, Parma, Italy, 3 December.

Galanti, C. (2020) 'Transnational opportunities for the commodification of care. The case of Italian-Romanian integration'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2020 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 20 June.

Galanti, C. (2020) 'Social Reproduction in Capitalist Societies. An Analytical Framework to Understand Change in Health and Social Care Arrangements'.  UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15 January.

Galanti, C. (2019) 'Do the European Union's direct interventions in healthcare trigger workers' transnational solidarity?' Council of European Studies (CES) research network European Integration and the Global Political Economy (EIGPE) Pre-conference Graduate Student Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 19 June.

Galanti, C. (2019) 'Healthcare and domestic care workers of Europe unite? Transnational solidarity under European new economic governance'. UCD Graduate Research Student Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 2 May.

Golden, D. (2023) 'How industrial relations addressed the pandemic crisis in the air transport value chain'. Discussant at Varieties of Industrial Relations in Aviation Lockdown (VIRAL) final conference, Brussels, Belgium, 8 June.

Golden, D. (2023) 'Transnational labour activism: Obstacles & opportunities'. Varieties of Industrial Relations in Aviation Lockdown (VIRAL), Maynooth University, Ireland, 20 April.

Golden, D. (2021) 'The EU's New Economic Governance Regime: Commodifying Rail Services by New Means?International Railway Studies (Ferinter) Colloquium, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, 28 September.

Golden, D. (2019) 'New Economic Governance and Labour Politics in the Public Transport Sector: A "Persistent Irritant"?International Sociological Association (ISA) RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 30 August. (See Working Paper 6).

Golden, D. (2018) 'New Economic Governance and Labour Politics in the Public Transport Sector: A "Persistent Irritant"?Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September. (See Working Paper 6).

Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2023) 'The Commodification of Local Public Services under the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime: The Case of Italy'The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) (RN06) of the European Sociological Association Mid-term Workshop, Naples, Italy, 10 June.

Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2022) 'Ryanair Pilots: Unlikely Pioneers of Transnational Collective Action'. Transnational Political Contention in Europe (TraPoCo) Conference, Vienna, Austria, 22 September.

Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Erne, R. (2022) 'Commodifying Public Services by New Means? EU Prescriptions in Public Transport and Water Services'. Council for European Studies (CES) 28th International Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 July.

Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2021) 'Ryanair Pilots: Unlikely Pioneers of Transnational Collective Action'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2021, Florence, Italy, 16 September.

Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Erne, R. (2020) 'Explaining the unequal success of European Citizens' Initiatives: The "Right2Water" and the "Fair Transport" campaigns'. University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Conference, Virtual, 9 September.

Golden, D., Szabó, I., Erne, R. (2020) 'The New Economic Governance of network industries in Europe. A public service perspective'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2020 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 20 June.

Jordan, J. (2018) 'NEG and Labour Politics: EU-Level Perspectives'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September.

Jordan, J., Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2019) 'Is the European Semester Really Being Socialised? Rethinking the European Union's New Economic Governance Regime and Labour Politics'. Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) Monthly Seminar, Dublin, Ireland, 19 September. (See Working Paper 7).

Jordan, J., Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2019) 'Is the European Semester Really Being Socialised? Rethinking the European Union's New Economic Governance Regime and Labour Politics'. 12th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) European Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, 6 September.

Maccarrone, V. (2022) 'Transnational employment relations under the new European economic governance regime: analysing the reform of minimum wage regulation in Ireland under EU-IMF conditionality'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 20 April.

Maccarrone, V. (2021) 'Still embedded in eurocorporatism? European Trade Unions Within the New Economic Governance Regime'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2021, Florence, Italy, 17 September.

Maccarrone, V. (2021) 'Still embedded in eurocorporatism? European Trade Unions Within the New Economic Governance Regime'. 15th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Virtual, 2 September.

Maccarrone, V. (2020) 'No one is a prophet in his own land? The politics of minimum wage regulation during the period of the Troika conditionality in Ireland (2010-2013)'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2020 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 20 June.

Maccarrone, V. (2020) 'No one is a prophet in his own land? The politics of minimum wage regulation during the period of the Troika conditionality in Ireland'. Talk in the Political Economy Working Group, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 11 June.

Maccarrone, V. (2020) 'Trajectories of commodification: mapping the impact of the new European economic governance on national industrial relations'4th Italian Italian Society Economic Sociology (SISEC) Conference, Torino, Italy, 31 January.

Maccarrone, V. (2020) 'The NEG and its relevance for national industrial relations'UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 16 January.

Maccarrone, V. (2019) 'The new European economic governance and its impact on national industrial relations'. Historical Materialism Conference, Athens, Greece, 4 May.

Maccarrone, V. (2019) 'Irish private sector industrial relations under the shadow of NEG'. International Doctoral Workshop on Employment Relations, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK, 8 March.

Maccarrone, V. (2018) 'Nemo Propheta in Patria? The politics of minimum wage regulation during the period of Troika conditionality in Ireland'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September.

Maccarrone, V. (2018) 'The Rise and Fall of Irish Social Partnership'. Conference 'Making Globalization: the Integration of the World Economy in the late 20th century'. University of Padua, Italy, 18 October.

Maccarrone, V. (2018) 'The New European Economic Governance and its Impact on Industrial Relations: The Case of Ireland'. Alternate Routes Conference, Bologna, Italy, 12 June.

Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2022) 'What's NE(G)XT: Continuity and Change in the European Governance of Labour after the Covid-19 Pandemic'. 13th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) European Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 10 September.

Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2022) 'What's NE(G)XT: Continuity and Change in the EU Governance of Labour after the Pandemic'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2022 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 22 July.

Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2022) 'What's NE(G)XT: Continuity and Change in the EU Governance of Labour after the Pandemic'. 6th Italian Society of Economic Sociology (SISEC) Conference, Bologna, Italy, 9 June.

Maccarrone, V. and Erne, R. (2019) 'European integration and the commodification of labour market institutions. A comparative analysis of recent EU interventions in Italy, Ireland and Switzerland'. 12th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) European Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, 6 September.

Maccarrone, V. and Tassinari, A. (2022) 'Where is labour in Comparative Political Economy? Notes for reconnecting LPT and CPE'. 40th International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Padua, Italy, 23 April.

Maccarrone, V., Erne, R. and Regan, A. (2018) 'Explaining the trajectory of collective bargaining in Ireland: 2000-2017'. 6th Annual Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) Labour Market Conference, Galway, Ireland, 22 May.

Naughton, M. (2021) 'Las luchas por la sanidad [The struggles for healthcare]'. Seminar of the Charles Babbage group at the Department of Applied Sciences, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, 26 November.

Naughton, M. (2021) 'Mobilising societal power. Understanding public support for nursing strikes'. 15th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Virtual, 2 September.

Naughton, M. (2021) 'Mobilising societal power. Understanding public support for nursing strikes'. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 33rd Conference, Virtual, 3 July.

Naughton, M. (2021) 'Mobilising societal power. Understanding public support for nursing strikes'. UCD College of Business PhD Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 30 April.

Naughton, M. (2020) 'The 2019 nurses strike - politicisation of caring'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2020 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 20 June.

Naughton, M. (2020) 'The EU's new economic governance and strategies of resistance in the healthcare sector'.  UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PhD Winter School, Dublin, Ireland, 15 January.

Naughton, M. (2019) 'Collective Responses to New Economic Governance of Healthcare'. Council of European Studies (CES) research network European Integration and the Global Political Economy (EIGPE) Pre-conference Graduate Student Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 19 June.

Naughton, M. (2019) 'The EU's new economic governance and healthcare unions'. UCD Graduate Research Student Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 2 May.

Nowak, J. and Erne, R. (2020) 'What is missing? Transnational socio-economic protests in Europe - a database and overview'. The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) 2020 Mid-term Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 20 June.

Stan, S. (2019) 'Sectoral dimensions of intra-European migration. The case of healthcare'. Tübingen Seminar on Social Europe, University of Tübingen, Germany, 9 May.

Stan, S. (2018) 'NEG and Labour Politics in the Health Care Sector'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September.

Stan, S. and Avram, A. (2018) 'Mapping institutionalisation processes at work in the development of medical tourism in Romania'. Society for Romanian Studies (SRS) 2018 Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 29 June.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2024) 'Pursuing an overarching commodification script through country-specific interventions? The EU’s New Economic Governance prescriptions in healthcare (2009–2019)'. EUHealthGov webinar, University of Edinburgh, 28 February.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2022) 'EU matters! Nominal & actual EU competencies and interventions in healthcare'. Community Health Research, Practice and Education Conference, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Ireland, 2 September.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'The EU's New Economic Governance in Healthcare'. University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 51st Annual Conference, Virtual, 6 September.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'The EU's New Economic Governance in Healthcare: Preparing the Bed for the Covid Pandemic'. Council for European Studies (CES) 27th International Conference of Europeanists, Virtual, 22 June.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2020) 'The EU's New Economic Governance Prescriptions in Healthcare: Preparing the Bed for the Covid Pandemic'. UCD College of Business Covid-19 Research Mornings, Dublin, Ireland, 27 November.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2019) 'The New Economic Governance Regime in Health Care: A Labour Perspective'. International Sociological Association (ISA) RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 30 August. (See Working Paper 4).

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2018) 'East European migrants' access to health services in the uneven European healthcare space'. DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences Research Expo, Dublin, Ireland, 5 December.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2018) 'Migration, Access to Health and EU's New Economic Governance Regime'. 19th International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology 2018, Toronto, Canada, 19 July.

Stan, S. and Szabó, I. (2019) 'Trade Union Perspectives on the EU's New Economic Governance in Healthcare and Water Services'. Fringe meeting at the 10th European Public Service Union (EPSU) Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 5 June.

Szabó, I. (2019) 'Changing patterns of labour unrest in Europe: Has the public sector become the new center of class conflict?' The Political Economy of Public Sector Wage Setting in Europe Conference, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, Germany, 17 September.

Szabó, I. (2019) 'The European Governance of the Water Sector - Contentious Policy Agendas Triggering Transnational Reactions'International Sociological Association (ISA) RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, 30 August. (See Working Paper 5).

Szabó, I. (2018) 'The changing balance of collective agreements and statutory management in public service employment relations - European comparison'. University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, 19 September.

Szabó, I. (2018) 'The new Economic governance regime of the EU'. Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Budapest, Hungary, 17 September.

Szabó, I. (2018) 'The New Economic Governance in the Water Sector. Challenges for public services and labour'. Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 11 September.

Szabó, I., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2022) 'Why Do Some Labor Alliances Succeed in Politicizing Europe across Borders?' Council for European Studies (CES) 28th International Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 July.

Szabó, I., Erne, R. and Golden, D. (2020) 'EU governance and transnational labour mobilization. Explaining the unequal success of the "Right2Water" and the "Fair Transport" European Citizens' Initiatives'. Berlin Social Science Center's (WZB) Global Governance Colloquium, Berlin, Germany, 10 December.

Szabó, I., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2019) 'EU Governance and Trade Union-Social Movement Coalitions: Explaining the Unequal Success of the 'Right2Water' and the 'Fair Transport' European Citizens' Initiatives'. UCD College of Business Research Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 18 December.

Szabó, I., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2019) 'EU Governance and Trade Union-Social Movement Coalitions: Explaining the Unequal Success of the 'Right2Water' and the 'Fair Transport' European Citizens' Initiatives'. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 7 September.

Trif, A. and Szabó, I. (2019) 'Trade unions' innovative responses to hostile external conditions in Hungary and Romania'. Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies (IARCEES) 42nd Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 7 May.


Outreach Seminars

Erne, R. (2023) 'Ryanair case: the European Representative Committee as a critical example of transnational employment relations'. Invited talk, European Works Council (EWC) ConferenceDublin, Ireland, 30 March.

Erne, R. (2023) 'Irish industrial relations system from a comparative perspective'. Invited talk, European Works Council (EWC) ConferenceDublin, Ireland, 29 March.

Erne, R. and Stan, S. (2023) 'EU healthcare policy and trade union action'. Invited talk, Health and Social Services Standing Committee 58th MeetingEuropean Public Services Union, Brussels, Belgium, 23 February.

Erne, R. (2022) 'EU Arbeitspolitik: Probleme  Kompetenzen – Institutionen – Was tun? [EU Labour Policy: Problems – Competences – Institutions – What to do?]Unia EU Conference, Olten, Switzerland, 11 June. The presentation can be viewed here.

Maccarrone, V., Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2022) 'Plus ça change... Continuity and Change in the EU Governance of Healthcare after the Pandemic'. Conference-debate organised by the European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 31 March.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'Time for a paradigm change? Trade union challenges from the emerging European healthcare system'. Invited talk, webinar on Healthcare and Health and Safety at Work, Conference on the Future of Europe, European Centre for Workers' Questions (EZA)Virtual, 16 December.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'EU matters! Nominal and actual EU competencies in healthcare'. Invited talk, Online Webinar, European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection meeting, Paris, France, 20 November.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'EU matters! Nominal and actual EU competencies in healthcare'. Invited talk, Standing Committee on Health and Social Services 55th Meeting, European Public Services Union, Virtual, 19 October.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'Time for a paradigm change in understanding the emerging European health-care system'. Invited talk, ETUI-EPSU webinar 'Transforming care work within an era of changing priorities of care policy after the pandemic, Virtual, 29 September. Video and slides available.

Stan, S. and Erne, R. (2021) 'The EU's 'new economic governance' in healthcare: further privatisation and commercialisation'. Invited talk, International People's Health University, People's Health Movement, Virtual, 25 May.

Erne, R. (2019) 'Marking the Centenary of the International Labour Organisation - The Declaration of Philadelphia Revisited'. Invited panelist, DBEI ILO NUI Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 17 Sep.

Erne, R. (2018) 'Collective Bargaining in the EU'. Unite the UNION Ireland seminar Bargaining for Progress, Dublin, Ireland, 10 May.

Golden, D. (2019) 'Il Semestre Europeo È Realmente Socializzato? Ripensare il nuovo regime di governance economica e la politica sociale dell'Unione europea'. CGIL Workshop, Modena, Italy, 3 October.

Stan, S. (2020) 'EU policy prescriptions in health and long-term care: Preparing the bed for Covid'. Invited talk, Webinar Series: COVID-19 and long-term care - building health justice in Canada and in Europe. People's Health Movement (PHM) & European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection, Brussels, Belgium, 12 November. See Facebook video here.

Stan, S. (2020) 'L'agenda de la 'nouvelle governance économique' européenne en santé: plus de privatisation et de commercialisation'. Invited talk, Council Meeting of the Federation Sud Santé Sociaux, Paris, France, 30 January.

Stan, S. (2019) 'The EU's 'new economic governance' and its script on healthcare policies'. Invited talk, joint meeting of People's Health Movement (PHM) Europe and the European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection, Zagreb, Croatia, 9 November.

Stan, S. (2019) 'Impact of European policies on the privatisation of healthcare'. Invited talk, European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 2 April.

Stan, S. and Mainil, T. (2017) 'Transnational healthcare in Europe. Challenges for patients'. Invited talk, European Patient Forum Round Table on Cross-border Healthcare, Brussels, Belgium, 4 December.

Szabó, I. (2019) 'Wellsprings of Resistance - Struggles over water in Europe'. Invited panelist, Book LaunchDublin, Ireland, 12 Nov.


Participant Observations

15 November 2019:  Costanza Galanti and Mary Naughton attended the second regional workshop of the joint HOSPEEM-EPSU 2019-20 EU-funded project 'Strengthening Social Dialogue in the Hospital Sector in the East, South and Central Europe' in Rome (Italy). This workshop concerned Southern Europe.

8-11 November 2019: Sabina Stan participated in the joint meeting of People's Health Movement (PHM) Europe and the European Network Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Health and Social Protection in Zagreb (Croatia).

22-28 September 2019:  Imre Szabó visited the 5th ver.di Congress in Leipzig (Germany).

14 June 2019 Sabina Stan participated in the first regional workshop of the joint HOSPEEM-EPSU 2019-20 EU-funded project 'Strengthening Social Dialogue in the Hospital Sector in the East, South and Central Europe' in Bucharest (Romania). This workshop concerned Eastern Europe.

4-7 June 2019:  The ERC team visited the 10th European Public Service Union (EPSU) Congress in Dublin (Ireland). Sabina Stan and Imre Szabó organised a fringe meeting with Clivia Conrad (ver.di, Germany) and Razvan Gae (Sanitas, Romania) which Darragh Golden moderated.

21-24 May 2019:  The ERC team attended the 14th European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress in Vienna (Austria).

2 April 2019 Sabina Stan participated in the conference 'Our health is not for sale' of the European Network against Privatisation and Marketisation of Health and Social Protection in Brussels (Belgium).