Graziano P., Sabato S., Spasova S., Grisolia F., Fleischmann F.
Lessons from the MFF 2021–2027
ETUI, The European Trade Union Institute, April 2026, 53p.
Just transition
Social Europe amidst the security and competitiveness paradigms
Sabato S., Ghailani D. and Spasova S. (eds.)
Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 2025, 173 p.
State of the art, gaps and ways forward
Sabato S. and Vanhille J.
OSE Paper Series, Research Paper No. 63, Brussels: European Social Observatory, May 2024, 53p.
Debates, key issues and ways forward
Sabato S., Büchs M. and Vanhille, J.
OSE Paper Series, Research Paper No. 52, May 2023, 52p.
Policymaking in a permacrisis
Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.)
Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 180 p.
From the European Green Deal to the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Sabato S., Mandelli M. and Vanhercke B.
Madrid: EUROsociAL Programme, EUROsociAL Collection No 24, 63p.
A governance conundrum for the von der Leyen Commission?
Sabato S. and Mandelli M.
in Vanhercke B., Spasova S. and Fronteddu B. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2020, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 113-132.
The main objective of this research project is to explore how to strengthen the EU’s just transition framework by reinforcing the socio-ecological dimension of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) – using the upcoming review of the EPSR’s Action Plan to reinforce links between the EU’s green transition and social policy frameworks, and related governance structures.
The Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck (CSB, University of Antwerp) and the OSE have secured a contract with the Belgian Federal Public Service Social Security (SPF Sécurité Sociale) to provide the academic underpinning of the ‘Social Affairs’ side of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU during the first half of 2024.
In the first phase, the OSE has been tasked with writing three background papers on a) ‘improving access to social protection’; b) ‘just transition towards climate neutrality’; and c) ‘advancing disability rights in the context of the Union of equality’.
The OSE was contracted by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) to write a preliminary assessment of whether the European Green Deal (EGD) constitutes a suitable policy framework to combine environmental and economic objectives with the pursuit of social fairness, thus ensuring a just transition towards more sustainable economies and societies. The resulting Working paper focuses on two elements that appear crucial to the achievement of a socially just transition in the framework of the EGD.