Slavina Spasova, PhD in Political Science (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), has been OSE's Director since 1st of December 2023. Previously, she was a Senior researcher (2021) and a researcher (2016) working in the area of social protection at the OSE. She is the OSE coordinator in the European Social Policy Network (ESPN). As such her research agenda focuses on various social protection topics such as protection for the self-employed, pension reforms, work-life balance, healthcare, long-term care, sickness benefits. Slavina is also a research associate at the Centre d’étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL), ULB and since September 2020, she is also working as invited expert at Département des Sciences sociales et des Sciences du travail (ULB). In October 2021, Slavina also joined the editorial board of the Journal of European Social Security. Her previous work has explored the transformation process of the Bulgarian trade unions since 1989 and their involvement in building social institutions through the mechanisms of international socialisation and ‘usages of Europe’.
Slavina Spasova
2024
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Natali D., Janta B., Spasova S., Bannister Curran L., Fassino G., Copping D., McCarthy J., Kominou K., O’Brien J., Galligani I., Webb S., Hussain N.
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
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Schoukens P., Spasova S., De Becker E., Haapanala H. and Marenco M.
OSE Paper Series, Research Paper No. 64, June 2024, 54p.
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Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.)
Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 183 p.
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Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S.
in Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2023, An ambitious implementation of the Social Pillar, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 133-156.
2023
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Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.)
Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 180 p.
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Spasova, S.
in Waddington J., Müller T. and Vandaele K. (eds.), Trade unions in the European Union. Picking up the pieces of the neoliberal challenge, Work and Society Series, Volume 86, Peter Lang , 2023, pp. 183-212.
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Spasova S. and Marenco M.
in Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2022, Policymaking in a permacrisis, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 69-89.
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Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S.
in Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2022, Policymaking in a permacrisis, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 137-155.
2022
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Spasova S. and Marenco M.
Book review of Hemerijck A. and Huguenot-Noël R., Resilient Welfare States in the European Union. Published in The Progressive Post, FEPS, 2022
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Spasova S., Atanasova A., Sabato S. and Moja F.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
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Spasova S., Atanasova A. and Regazzoni, P.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2022
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Spasova S. and Regazzoni P.
International Social Security Review, Volume 75.2, 2022
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Spasova S., Ghailani D., Sabato S. and Vanhercke B.
ETUI, The European Trade Union Institute, Working paper 2022.10, April 2022, Brussels
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Vanhercke B. and Spasova S.
in Vanhercke B. and Spasova S. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2021, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 145-170.
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Vanhercke B. and Spasova S. (eds.)
Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 194 p.
2021
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Spasova S.
in Beauvallet W., Robert C., Roullaud E. (eds.), EU affairs. Sociologie des lobbyistes européens, Peter Lang, France.
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Spasova S., Ghailani D., Sabato S. and Vanhercke B. (Eds.)
Brussels, ETUI, 117p, 2021
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Spasova S., Sabato S. Ghailani D., Fronteddu B. et Vanhercke B.
Cahier FEC, Bruxelles : Formation Education Culture, 60 p.
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Baptista I., Marlier E., Spasova S., Peña-Casas R., Fronteddu B., Ghailani D., Sabato S. and Regazzoni P.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
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Vanhercke B. and Verdun A., with Atanasova A., Spasova S. and Thomson M.
Working Paper 2021.13, Brussels, ETUI, 48 p.
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Spasova S., Ghailani D., Sabato S., Coster S., Fronteddu B. and Vanhercke B.
Brussels, ETUI and OSE, 51 p.
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Vanhercke B., Spasova S. and Fronteddu B. (eds.)
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), Brussels, 2021, 220 p.
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Spasova S. and Vanhercke B.
Old age care, in Fischer G. and Strauss R. (Eds), Oxford University Press, pp. 428-451.
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Vanhercke B., Spasova S. and Fronteddu B.
in Vanhercke B., Spasova S. and Fronteddu B. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2020, Brussels: ETUI and OSE, pp. 155 - 184.
2020
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Vanhercke B., Ghailani D. and Spasova S. with Pochet P. (eds.)
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 230 p. Brussels, 2020
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Spasova S., Sabato S. and Porchez M.
Analytical Report Work Package 4 –INVOTUNES project, OSE Working Paper Series, Research Paper No. 46, Brussels, European Social Observatory, January, 43p.
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Spasova S., Bouget D., Belletti C. and Vanhercke B.
ETUI Policy Brief N°4/2020, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, April, 9p.
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Vanhercke B., Spasova S., Ghailani D. and Pochet P.
in Vanhercke B., Ghailani D. and Spasova S. with Pochet P. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union 1999-2019: the long and winding road, Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), pp. 183-202.
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Fronteddu B. and Bouget D.
in Vanhercke B., Spasova S. Ghailani D. and Pochet P. (eds.), Social policy in the European Union 1999-2019, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute and European Social Observatory, pp. 203-224.
2019
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Spasova S., Bouget D., Ghailani D., Vanhercke B.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (27) 2, June 2019, pp. 157-175
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Peña-Casas R., Ghailani D., Spasova S. and Vanhercke B.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission
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Sabato S., Corti F., Vanhercke B.and Spasova S. (2019)
Brussels: European Economic and Social Committee, 78 p.
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Baeten, R., Spasova, S. en Vanhercke, B. (2019)
in: Coene et al., Armoede en sociale uitsluiting, Jaarboek 2019. 28th edition, Acco Leuven/Den Haag, pp. 181-202.
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Baeten R., Spasova S. en Vanhercke B. (2019)
In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Sociale Zekerheid, n° 1/2019, pp.199-219.
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Spasova S., Louvaris F., Ch. and Vanhercke B.
in Costa Cabral, N. and Cunha Rodrigues, N. (2019), In book: The Future of Pension Plans in the EU Internal Market, pp.283-310
2018
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Baeten R., Spasova S., Vanhercke B. and Coster S.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission
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Spasova S. and Wilkens M.
in Vanhercke B., Ghailani D. and Sabato S. (eds.), Social Policy in the European Union: State of Play 2018, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), pp. 97-116
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Spasova S., Baeten R. and Vanhercke B.
Eurohealth Vol.24 No.4 2018, Brussels: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, pp. 7-12.
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Spasova S. and Vanhercke B.
ETUI Policy Brief N° 12/2018, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 7 p.
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Spasova S., Baeten R., Coster S., Ghailani D., Peña-Casas R. and Vanhercke B.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission.
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Sabato S., Ghailani D., Peña-Casas R., Spasova S., Corti, F. and Vanhercke B.
Brussels: European Economic and Social Committee, 45 p.
2017
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Spasova S., Bouget D., Ghailani D. and Vanhercke B.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission, 2017, 100p.
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Spasova S., Bouget D, Ghailani D. and Vanhercke B.
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission, 100p.
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Sabato S. and Vanhercke B. with Spasova S.
OSE Paper Series, Research Paper No.35, March 2017, 46p.
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in Vanhercke B., Sebastiano S. and Bouget D. (eds.)
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Sabato S. and Vanhercke B. with Spasova S.
OSE Paper Series, Research Paper No.35, March 2017, 46p.
2016
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Spasova S., Bouget D. and Vanhercke B.
Background report for the Social Protection Committee’s In-depth Review on sickness benefits (17 October 2016)
European Social Protection Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission, 42 p. -
Bouget D., Spasova S. and Vanhercke B.
European Social Protection Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission
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Spasova S. and Vanhercke B.
Review of the edited volume, by Delteil V. and Kirov N. (Eds.), Employment and economy in Central and Eastern Europe, Special Issue No. 1/2016, 5p.