Employment policies: a general overview
The 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
DetailsWhilst supporting the development of multidimensional approaches, EAPN aims to promote mutual learning between national members and to develop proposals for better policy approaches and measures on specific policy areas…
DetailsFor the last 10 years, EAPN has actively promoted the need for a dynamic, integrated national action plan process involving wide-spread stakeholder involvement within the Open Method of Coordination (OMC)…
DetailsThe European Year against poverty in 2010 is a crucial moment, to stocktake on progress made and to implement a social pact with decision-makers on the necessary future measures to…
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