Dorothee Fischer

Together with Irina De Sancho, Senior Political Advisor on Employment and Social Policy at the European Parliament I published a response paper explaining how the fiscal and financial architecture of the EU should be changed, in order to protect the rights of citizens and the social welfare state in situations of economic crisis.   We […]

On the occasion of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, I have published an article on the challenges that await us after Covid-19. I ask the European Commission to put mental health issues on the agenda of the next Strategic Framework of the EU to recognise anxiety, depression and burnout as occupational

This crisis, being in its genesis of health, will undoubtedly end, as it is already doing, in an economic and social crisis similar to the crisis of 2008. But if we do not want to repeat the same mistakes, it is urgent to implement the structural changes necessary to shield social rights and universal public

The coronavirus crisis already marks a before and after in the approach and development of Social Europe. It even seems to have called into question the very construction of the EU. But, in the same way that, in the case of human beings, adversities bring out both their most negative characteristics and their most positive

Together with my colleague, MEP Lina Gálvez, I have asked the European Commission to protect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from technology giants such as Amazon, which decided to pass on the digital tax to companies that use their platform to sell their products. We have warned that Amazon is increasing the commission fees they

Today, on World Social Justice Day, it is important to emphasise the need for decent wages to close the inequality gap. Below you find my intervention in the EMPL Commission of the European Parliament asking the European Commission for a community initiative that guarantees minimum wages throughout Europe.

The digital revolution has increased social inequalities and between countries. It has created damage to the viability of social protection systems due to tax evasion resulting from the lack of control of the digital economy. In addition, social and labour standards are often not respected and precarious work is encouraged. That is why I asked

The European Commission has prepared a European Green Deal, however, important questions inevitably emerge: will this proposal also be a New Deal for the European people? Will it offer relief for the poor and social justice for the many? The New Deal was a social contract with the American people at the beginning of the