In 2007/8, the EU considered whether to revise the “Integrated macro, micro and employment guidelines” that underpin the Lisbon strategy and process. Despite EAPN and Social NGO lobbying, no changes were made in the Guidelines themselves, but some significant progress was made in the interpretative text in the Employment Guidelines section. This step forward reflected…
DetailsEAPN’s members in national networks and European Organisations have been actively engaged in the follow-up on the European Employment Strategy since its beginning, through the National Action Plans on Employment. With the reform of the Lisbon Strategy, EAPN members have attempted to engage more broadly with the macro economic and micro objectives as well as…
DetailsEAPN’s members in national networks and European Organisations have been actively engaged in the follow-up on the European Employment Strategy since its beginning, through the National Action Plans on Employment. With the reform of the Lisbon Strategy, EAPN members have attempted to engage more broadly with the macro economic and micro objectives as well as…
DetailsThe European Employment Strategy (EES): 10 years of Open Method of Coordination In 1997 The Amsterdam Treaty, with a new chapter on Employment has been an important step: whilst employment policies remain national competence, it clearly gives to the European Institutions a stronger role. Structural Funds are one of the main financial tools to deliver…
DetailsEAPN has been constantly bringing our work and arguments to the attention of policy makers at EU and national level, asking that employment policy deliver for the most excluded, notably long term unemployed and undeclared workers, and demanding that our views are taken into consideration. In this perspective, EAPN has been doing a regular review…
DetailsThe development of ‘activation policies’ is a general trend in Europe, as a set of policies aiming at bringing people back to employment, either through financial incentives, or through compulsory activities. While repeating that employment is a way towards social inclusion, EAPN has already expressed its concerns regarding the way activation is sometimes implemented; which…
DetailsWithin the area of social economy, many of projects and initiatives are being developed. They aim to help efficiently people furthest from the labour market getting back to the labour market, providing them with a supportive environment, personalized and flexible work integration schemes. Number of EAPN members involved in such projects as well as Social…
DetailsEAPN is following with great concern the implementation of the EU common principles on Flexicurity, adopted in December 2007, aiming at inspiring Labour Market reforms in the Member States. During the debate leading to the agreement on these EU Common Principles, we have highlighted that social, economic and employment dimensions should be approached in an…
DetailsAt the Lisbon European Council of March 2000, Member States and the European Commission agreed to take steps to “make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty by 2010” and fixed the Union’s ten year strategic goal of sustained economic growth, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Fighting poverty…
DetailsIn spite of the overall wealth of the European Union (EU) poverty, nearly 1 in 7 people are at risk of poverty. However, poverty is not well understood, either by policy makers or the general public. People often think of poverty as something that only exists in developing countries. But the reality of poverty in…
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