On 3 March 2026, the final conference of the POSTING.STAT 2.0 project took place in Leuven at the Grand Beguinage, bringing together more than 100 participants from 20 EU Member States to discuss the future of evidence based policymaking on the posting of workers.

Over the past two years, the project has significantly strengthened the empirical basis for understanding intra EU posting through the collection and analysis of national administrative data across key sending and receiving countries.

The conference presented the main findings from 11 country reports and several thematic papers, with particular attention to the posting of third country nationals, compliance challenges and enforcement measures.

As a project partner, Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) contributed to the research activities throughout the project’s duration.

At the final conference, CELSI researcher Nina Holičková participated in the second panel discussion, contributing to the exchange on data gaps, policy implications and the enforcement dimension of posting.

The conference was opened and framed by Frederic De Wispelaere of HIVA-KU Leuven, project coordinator, who highlighted key findings emerging from the country and thematic reports.

High level reflections were also delivered by Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, underlining the importance of reliable data for fair labour mobility in the EU.

The event was further shaped by the contributions of Lynn De Smedt of HIVA-KU Leuven and other academic and institutional stakeholders.

POSTING.STAT 2.0, coordinated by HIVA KU Leuven and implemented by a consortium of research partners from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, aims to complement European level statistics on posting by systematically analysing national administrative data.

The project builds on the earlier POSTING.STAT initiative and represents another step toward improving transparency and evidence in the field of EU labour mobility.

For CELSI, the closing conference marks the culmination of two years of research cooperation dedicated to better understanding posting flows, regulatory challenges and the realities faced by posted workers.

🔗 Learn more about the project and its publications at: https://celsi.sk/en/posting_stat-2_0/

We thank all project partners, researchers and institutional stakeholders who contributed to this joint effort to strengthen the empirical foundations of EU labour mobility policy.

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