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  • Energy Resilience of Households in a Prepared Union – The Potential of a Sodium Battery-Based Solution

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    104 pages

    This study examines the potential of sodium ion battery technology to strengthen energy resilience in European households and businesses, particularly in meeting a 72 hour electricity self sufficiency objective under the EU’s preparedness strategy.

  • EESC call for an EU Blue Deal: Mapping water stakeholders

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    105 pages

    The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has initiated the EU Blue Deal to elevate water as a strategic political priority in the EU. This report is a key step in that process, providing a comprehensive mapping and analysis of water stakeholders and governance structures across all 27 EU Member States. The study compiles country-specific factsheets that outline each Member State water governance framework, key legislation, main actors, and pressing challenges such as water quality, climate risks, and infrastructure gaps.

  • The new automation divide: Understanding the role of AI in employment shifts, distribution, and future policy solutions

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    79 pages

    This paper examines the labour-market implications of artificial intelligence (AI) focusing on employment, distribution, and economic governance within the European Union. It presents the reader with the complicated literature around automation technologies, and their impacts on labour. Arguing that AI represents a qualitatively new phase of automation but continues to demonstrate similar trends to previous waves, only this time targeting routine cognitive and white-collar jobs.

  • Socially just transition in the Green Deal: cost of inaction

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    263 pages

    The study assesses how a prospective EU Just Transition Directive (JTD) could shape the social and employment outcomes of the European Green Deal. Drawing on literature review, stake-holder interviews, foresight-based PESTEL scenario building and partial-equilibrium projections, it develops business-as-usual, as well as weak and strong JTD scenarios to 2045. The scenarios focus on seven Member States representing diverse welfare and production regimes.

  • Establishing the 28th Regime in Europe

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    75 pages

    A Unified Legal Framework to Support Growth and Business

    This study, commissioned by the EESC, offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept, rationale, historical evolution, and future prospects of the 28th regime in EU law.

  • The digitalisation of agriculture

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    70 pages

    Opportunities and drawbacks towards the reduction of GHG emissions in agriculture

    This study evaluates the environmental, social, and economic impacts of digitalisation based on a literature review and case studies in Estonia, Germany, Romania, and Spain

  • The EU on the path to reaching the headline 2030 employment and training targets: the views of social partners and civil society organisations in a selection of EU Member States

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    36 pages

    This study examines how social partners and civil society organisations in six Member States — Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Sweden — view the effectiveness of current policies in raising employment levels and increasing adult participation in training. It also puts forward recommendations for improving policy outcomes.

  • Feasibility study to generate statistics on climate-induced migration and ways forward

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    72 pages

    This feasibility study to generate statistics on climate-induced migration and ways forward sought to gather and review existing data on climate-induced migration, focussing on five Member States (France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain) and one candidate country (Türkiye), to inform an effective EU response. There is no universally agreed definition of climate-induced migration. The majority of population movements as a result of rapid onset events takes place within a country as opposed to across borders.

  • Feasibility study for the creation of a public EU rating agency for environmental and social sustainability and human rights in the business context

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    42 pages

    This report proposes the creation of a Public EU Rating Agency focused on environmental and social sustainability and human rights, aiming to support EU sustainability efforts by setting standards, accrediting auditors, and centralizing data

  • European Pillar of Social Rights: State of play in 2024

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    102 pages

    This study, commissioned by the European Economic and Social Committee, examines the state of implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its Action Plan in 2024

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