In response to the last recession, the European Union (EU) adopted a new economic governance (NEG) regime. An influential stream of EU social policy literature argues that there has been more emphasis on social objectives in the NEG regime in more recent years. This article shows that this is not the case. It does so through an in-depth analysis of NEG prescriptions on wage, employment protection and collective bargaining policy in Germany, Italy, Ireland and Romania between 2009 and 2019. Our main conclusion is that the EU’s interventions in these three industrial relations policy areas continue to be dominated by a liberalization agenda that is commodifying labour, albeit to a different degree across the uneven but nonetheless integrated European political economy. This finding is important, as countervailing transnational trade union action is the more likely, the more there is a common threat. Even so, our contextualized analysis also enables us to detect contradictions that could provide European labour movements opportunities to pursue countervailing action.

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迈向欧盟新经济治理体制的社会化？欧盟对德国、爱尔兰、意大利和罗马尼亚的劳工政策干预（2009-2019）

为应对上次经济衰退，欧盟（EU）采用了新的经济治理（NEG）制度。一个有影响力的欧盟社会政策文献认为，近年来 NEG 制度更加强调社会目标。这篇文章表明情况并非如此。它通过深入分析 2009 年至 2019 年德国、意大利、爱尔兰和罗马尼亚在工资、就业保护和集体谈判政策方面的 NEG 处方来实现这一点。我们的主要结论是欧盟对这三个产业关系政策领域的干预仍在继续将劳动力商品化的自由化议程主导，尽管在不平衡但仍然一体化的欧洲政治经济中程度不同。这个发现很重要 由于反补贴跨国工会行动的可能性越大，共同威胁就越多。即便如此，我们的情境化分析也使我们能够发现矛盾，这些矛盾可以为欧洲劳工运动提供采取反补贴行动的机会。