That would be nice... an EU Wide Minimum Wage. Maybe it wouldn't be? At least not exactly as the S&D have previously said would be good.
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At a public debate in Warsaw, Poland, Mr Timmermans said: "We need a minimum wage in the European Union.
"Equal to 60 percent of the median wage in every member state, I mean."
this factcheck from Euractiv is terrible https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-elections-2019/news/fact-check-is-equal-eu-minimum-wage-possible-as-bulgarian-socialists-claim/
doesn't go into supposed policy or really where the calculations are coming from really (there's or the BSP)
Macron is talking about it https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/06/1040251
Merkel is talking about it (kinda) https://www.politico.eu/article/german-chanellor-angela-merkel-calls-for-comparable-minimum-wage-across-eu/
Some official stats from Eurostat:
So the UK introduced theirs in 1998 at a now hilariously low £3.60 gradually increasing over time.
The economist even thought this very low rate was probably just fine as it wouldn't really impact anything directly unless the Bank of England did something in response
https://www-economist-com.libproxy.kcl.ac.uk/britain/1998/06/18/unveiled
They've just progressively been increasing it over time... not enough almost certainly but it was a good way to get the lever on the books. I dunno maybe?
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