In this Policy Brief the authors put in question the possibility, generally accepted without justification or context, of pursuing growth while respecting ‘vital’ constraints of the environment.

The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) have issued the report of the hearing help in the European Parliament on 9 February and during which Sian Jones, EAPN Policy coordinator, spoke.

The unemployment rate hit a new high at 10.1 % in the EU in January 2012, above the symbolic threshold of 10 %, up by 0.1 pp on the previous two months. Read more on the EC website. 

Amongst other topics, this issue deals with water as a public good and with the role of our elected leaders in the privatisation of water. Download RFA magazine.

In the report, EPHA highlights the growing body of evidence that GDP alone cannot measure all aspects of human development, does not account for social costs.

Since 2001, the ETUC and ETUI have produced Benchmarking Working Europe for the European Social Summit to draw attention to the state of working Europe.