Overview

The EU PolicyWatch database currently contains 2,815 measures introduced by governments and social partners to cushion the social and economic effects on businesses, workers and citizens. The data collection started in 2020 and was last updated in October 2025. More information is available on the Eurofound website:

• About EU PolicyWatch
• Topic: COVID-19
• Topic: Stand with Ukraine

Use the side navigation to find measures by country, type of measure, category, or target group. Use the dashboard for a more detailed search related to the following policy contexts and filter by more than 60 topical categories and more than 15 further attributes:

• COVID-19: 1711 policy measures
• War in Ukraine: 532 policy measures
• Green Transition: 500 policy measures
• Digital Transformation: 115 policy measures
• Restructuring Support Instruments: 320 policy measures
• Extreme Weather Events: 67 policy measures
• Cost of Living Crisis: 204 policy measures
• Labour Migration Management: 126 policy measures

Dashboard

Categories

Target groups

The database indicates for each measure the target groups it applies to, broadly differentiating between workers, businesses and citizens.

The database contains 42 specific target groups, including for example:

• Workers: Self-employed, Seasonal workers, Platform workers
• Businesses: SMEs, Start-ups, Larger corporations
• Citizens: Parents, Older citizens, Migrants

Recently updated measures

Involvement of social partners in legislation

Eurofound identified 1815 pieces of legislation and other statutory regulations, 1058 of which were entirely new. This section gives an overview of social partner involvement in designing and implementing these measures.

Role of employers' organisations in designing the measure

• In 806 measures, employers' organisations were involved:

• In 444 measures, there was no involvement;
• For the 565 remaining measures the involvement is unknown, or they were considered as being out of the social partner's domain.

Role of trade unions in designing the measure

• In 744 measures, trade unions were involved:

• In 493 measures, there was no involvement;
• For the 578 remaining measures the involvement is unknown, or they were considered as being out of the social partner's domain.

Implementation, monitoring and assessment phase

• In 317 measures, social partners were involved:

• In the remaining 1498 measures, there was no involvement or the involvement is unknown.

• Recently added pieces of legislation

• Compensation Measures of the Croatian Employment Services to Employers

  According to the Decree of the Amount of the Minimum Wage (Uredba o visini minimalne plaće za 2025. godinu - OG 124/24) from 24 October 2024, the gross minimum wage in Croatia is € 970. Croatia is amo...

  Croatia | 11 January 2025

  New network charges for electricity

  The Energy Agency (Agencija za energijo) is responsible for determining the network charges that users pay to cover costs incurred by electricity system operators, such as system maintenance, electric...

  Slovenia | 18 December 2024

  Permanent short-time work scheme

  In January 2023, the Ministry of Labour published an communication (analysis) regarding a potentially permanent short-time work scheme. The analysis was part of the work on structural reforms in the c...

  Slovenia | 18 December 2024

Collective agreements

The EU PolicyWatch database contains 170 collective agreements. Most of them were identified in France and the most commonly found provisions relate to employment retention, income protection, and health and safety.

Contents

44 agreements additionally contain other provisions not mentioned above.

• Recently added collective agreements

• Just Transition Action Plan (Further) education and training

  Austria has set the goal to achieve climate neutrality by 2040. Thus, the transformation required in order to achieve that goal has a large impact on the labour market. New skills and qualifications, ...

  Austria | 08 January 2025

  Climate Partnership

  A Climate Partnership was established in 2023 as a collaboration between the government and social partners to accelerate the green transition in the business sector. The goal is to create a shared un...

  Norway | 18 December 2024

  Sectoral agreements in the context of RES challenges in Poland

  In Poland, there are four sectoral agreements operating under the Ministry of Climate and Environment: Cooperation Agreement for the Development of the Photovoltaic Sector, Cooperation Agreement for t...

  Poland | 18 December 2024

Social partner initiatives

The EU PolicyWatch database contains 119 social partner initiatives. Most of them were identified in Germany and belong to the category Promoting the economic, labour market and social recovery into a green future.

Main themes

• Recently added social partner initiatives

• Union Federation Climate office

  The climate crisis and its impact on working lives and living environments has been steadily playing a bigger role within the last years, also for the union movement. Large transformations are and wil...

  Austria | 09 January 2025

  Eco booster

  The City of Vienna has set the goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2040. Thus, a strategy called “Out of Gas – Vienna Heat and Cold 2040” was taken up, which aims to phase out fossil energy for heatin...

  Austria | 08 January 2025

  Employers' Confederation opposes Climate-Resilient Economy Act

  Estonia is in the process of drafting the Climate-Resilient Economy Act, commonly referred to as the climate law, which aims to guide the country toward climate neutrality by 2050. The Ministry of Cli...

  Estonia | 18 December 2024

Company practices

The EU PolicyWatch database contains 169 company practices. Most of them were identified in Bulgaria and the most commonly found provisions relate to health and safety, work organisation, and telework.

Contents

55 company practices additionally contain other provisions not mentioned above.

• Recently added company practices

• Zero Impact Factory Strategy (Volkswagen Slovakia)

  Volkswagen Slovakia places special emphasis on the environment and its protection. All efforts are directed towards the production of cars and company operations without impact on the environment, or...

  Slovakia | 10 January 2025

  MOL Group 'Shape Tomorrow' strategy (Slovnaft, a.s.)

  The vision of MOL Group is intelligent energy transformation. It advocates a smart transition to green energy, while maintaining the sustainability and economic prosperity of Europe. On 13th October 2...

  Slovakia | 08 January 2025

  Action plan to prevent plastic waste in the Republic of Cyprus 2030

  The Action Plan is a deliverable of the project ‘Plastic Waste Free Islands’ implemented by the NGO Together Cyprus – The Environmental and Social Network and the Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative...

  Cyprus | 08 January 2025

Due to the revision process, some cases might temporarily be unavailable.

Information on updates

The database is updated regularly throughout the year with input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents. You can view information on the updates of the EU PolicyWatch database on the Eurofound website.