Brussels, my love? The Green Deal Industrial Plan & workers’ rights

The Euronews Brussels bureau brings you its newest episode of a brand new discuss present that goals to interrupt down European information and politics to make it extra accessible to viewers. 

This week’s episode options the German MEP, Christian Ehler from the European Peoples Celebration, the Belgian MEP Marc Botenga from The Left and the deputy director-general of Enterprise Europe, Luisa Santos. 

The large story in Brussels this week was the go to of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who acquired a hero’s welcome within the European Parliament the place he thanked Europe for his or her help over the previous 12 months. 

Throughout a press convention on the EU Council later, he known as on Europe for extra weapons, together with long-range missiles, and reminded everybody that Ukraine desires a quick accession into the EU.

“I believe it has a tragic second as a result of it reveals how essential it’s to be current in an consideration democracy.

“I imply, they rightly need to worry that after 4, six weeks, we’re merely forgetting that individuals are dying. There’s occupied territory, the Russians behave just like the Nazis had been doing that on the identical territory within the Second World Battle,” Ehler advised the panel.

For Botenga, is it essential to look past the photographs, symbolic speeches and emotional moments.

“The query is how you can get out of this warfare,” he stated.

The panel additionally mentioned the subject of platform employees and the truth that talks will quickly begin amongst EU establishments on a invoice that may grant them extra rights. The European Parliament lately voted on a decision demanding equal working situations for platform employees.

“I believe the vote in plenary in favour of the rights of platform employees final week was actually the accomplishment of a collection of mobilisations as a result of it began to place stress on the European Fee to truly include a proposal to the employees’ rights on this new platform economic system,” Botenga stated on the subject.

In response to him, there are about 28 million platform employees throughout the EU.

However his German colleague warned that the problem could also be extra complicated and that the EU may not be best-placed to manage on it. 

“This can be a Member States difficulty. It is the 18 or 19 completely different labour legal guidelines in Europe, fairly incomparable. So the query is, are we in cost? And is that only a pretension or is it one thing we considerably can contribute?” Ehler questioned. 

Watch the complete episode of “Brussels, my love?” within the video participant above.