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Read FEPS new book ‘A new Gender Equality Contract for Europe’! Just as the European Commission is about to enter its new term and as concerns have been high on the lack of ambition on equality policy, this publication offers a timely reflection on the need for a new gender contract for Europe!
Europe 2025
Europe is in a pivotal year yet again. The European elections in May 2019 set the tone for what will unfold during the rest of 2019 and beyond. The new European Parliament will have its first sitting in the summer and the second half of the year will be determined by the creation of a …
Europe’s social agenda: raising the game - Social Europe
Aug 1, 2024 · In recent months, the discourse on the future of the European Union has been overwhelmingly centred on ‘competitiveness’.In the Financial Times in May, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, advocated ‘a renewed impetus for competitiveness for the EU’s next term’. And the Strategic Agenda for the five years ahead adopted by the European Council ...
The vanishing act of Social Europe: Will it rise again?
Dec 16, 2024 · Some achievements, major blind spots. The new Commission agenda acknowledges important issues, most notably (a) the economic benefits of social policy emphasised by the social investment approach and (b) the need to do more to implement existing commitments. However, this rather unambitious agenda is, at best, a missed opportunity and, at worst, a step back for social Europe.
Can the EU Export Its Values? How ‘Social Europe’ Shapes Global …
Nov 29, 2024 · How the EU’s Social Europe model influences global labour standards through inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In 2024, the EU adopted new regulations prohibiting goods made with forced and child labour. While the ban applies to exports from the EU and sales in the EU market, it primarily targets imports, demonstrating its normative power.
Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?
Jul 23, 2024 · Europe needs to be brave enough to bet on social policy—where it is currently constrained by the restricted European Union competences in the social sphere—to propel more inclusive growth and to abolish poverty.
Building social Europe, winning public confidence
Feb 14, 2022 · Maximum ambition. European workers want a strong, supportive and protective social Europe. Today, ahead of the informal Council of Ministers for Social Affairs and Employment, we are mobilising to demand that European decision-makers make up for the years of delay by approving, by the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, a European directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining that is as ...
Society Archives • Social Europe
Nov 27, 2024 · Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher driven by the core values of freedom, sustainability, and equality. These principles guide our exploration of society’s most pressing challenges.
EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste - Social Europe
Feb 7, 2023 · At the end of January, the commission published its report on the implementation of the council recommendation of 2019 on access to social protection. This shows a mixed picture: there is some progress, in part thanks to measures put in place during the pandemic, but many were temporary patches and most member states fail …
Stepping up the EU agenda on social citizenship
Apr 12, 2024 · On Tuesday a ‘High-level Conference on the European Pillar of Social Rights’, organised by the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU, will adopt an inter-institutional declaration to renew the commitment to the EPSR, promulgated in 2017.