In recent years trade unions, researchers and campaigners have debated the question of minimum wages and the pros and cons of adopting a European policy on minimum wages. This is not about setting a minimum wage at European level but a common target for minimum wages at national level - such as 50% or 60% of national median or mean earnings. This was one part of a debate at an ETUI conference and has been taken up in exchanges between contributors to the website of the Social Europe Journal. Read more at > ETUI (EN) And at > SEJ Ronald Janssen (EN) And at > SEJ Lars Vande Keybus (EN)