Hello and welcome to the second series of ETIP podcast, Voices from the World of Work.

I am Bianca Luna Fabrice, communications officer at the ETII, and I am the host for this season.

For this episode, I am pleased to welcome Romack Yakadinsky.

He's a senior researcher here at the Institute, and he has coordinated this year's benchmarking

Working Europe, our flagship publication together with the ETUC.

So the ETUI has published 20 editions of benchmarking working Europe and we basically map

what is happening in the European labour market each year and to see what the progress are in terms of social and labour market policies.

Could you tell us why this edition is different from the others?

It is special for a number of reasons because it is on some aspects it's different from it used to be in 2001 and on others.

It's really very special. I'll start with what is the same. What did not change is the goal and the

cooperation with the HTC about it. So it is still about providing a different social perspective.

It is about looking at the same data that, for instance, Eurostat delivers,

but identifying the social aspects to it.

If you will, it is creating the social conscience

or a social reflection about the EU developments,

policies, progress achievements.

So what didn't change is that we are coming back and back with it again every year.

But what did change is definitely when I look back at the 2001 edition, for instance,

is the quality and depth of analysis.

We have really gone a long way and we are going both deeper and

broader in terms of our analysis. So we have new topics that we've added on top of the making them

more in-depth and profound. We've added, for instance, the occupational health and safety, although in the 2001 edition,

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