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The EU’s long-term budget, coupled with NextGenerationEU (NGEU), the temporary instrument designed to boost the post-COVID-19 recovery, was adopted on 17 December 2020. NGEU is to be the largest stimulus package ever financed in Europe.

Duncan Morrow is Professor in Politics at Ulster University in Belfast and is currently the Director of Community Engagement there. Professor Morrow’s interest in inter-community relationships in Northern Ireland/Ireland and questions of peace and conflict both in Ireland and internationally have shaped his University career. 

In recent years, many countries have looked to increase minimum wages as part of a strategy to address labour market problems. This lecture will summarise these developments, what the impacts have been and what minimum wage policy should be in the future.