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"This book investigates the role that foreign direct investment (FDI) in central-eastern and southern Europe has played in the post-crisis period, comparing patterns across countries and sectors.
An overarching objective of this publication is to assess the extent to which FDI can still be seen as a key driver of economic development, modernisation and convergence for Europe's low- and middle-income economies, taking into account also the risks and limiting factors associated with FDI."

"This report by ETUI researcher Magda Bernaciak, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick (University of London) and Richard Hyman (London School of Economics) looks at how the diversity of European ‘trade unionisms' leads to a diversity of challenges. It outlines several imaginative initiatives and innovations undertaken by trade unions in recent years, especially in terms of membership organising, mergers and organisational restructuring, collective bargaining, social partnership and cross-border cooperation. "

"This book provides a detailed account of the innovative practices pursued by trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe since 2008. The book covers eleven post-socialist states that joined the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

It looks at these innovations and the drivers behind it paying attention to the characteristics of the national/sectoral industrial relations institutions, the resources remaining at unions' disposal and the role of union agency.

The book also assesses the sustainability and impact of innovative union initiatives on unions' established roles and on their countries' industrial relations systems."

"This article examines the stances of Polish trade unions on EU enlargement, intra-EU labour mobility and EU service market liberalization. It shows that, despite the liberal rhetoric embraced by mainstream media and successive Polish governments, the country's labour organizations did not lend their support to the logic of low-cost competitiveness. The article accounts for this stance by referring to the insider-outsider theorem. It argues that whereas transnationally mobile workers and self-employed individuals (the ‘outsiders') could make use of short-term cost advantages, the domestic workforce (the ‘insiders') benefited from the gradual improvement of employment conditions in Poland and their convergence with western standards. The desire to cater to the interests of the insiders made the unions reject social dumping and defend the west European social ‘archetype' to which their countrymen aspired."