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Politics Archives - Social Europe
3 days ago · Kant, Einstein and ‘perpetual peace’. In today’s runaway world, Einstein’s ideal of ‘abolishing war’ becomes unavoidable rather than impractical. Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. This archive brings together Social Europe articles on political issues.
Facing Europe’s huge challenges - Social Europe
Sep 1, 2023 · Facing Europe’s huge challenges. The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine. A Green and Global Europe, Nathalie Tocci, Polity Press, 2023. Resilient Welfare States in the European Union, Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noël, Agenda Publishing, 2022. EU ...
Society Archives • Social Europe
Sep 16, 2024 · Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page …
Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?
Jul 23, 2024 · The guidelines promise a first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan. Von der Leyen acknowledges that European households are spending an ever-growing portion of their income on housing expenses. Between 2010 and 2022, average house prices increased by 47 per cent and rents by 18 per cent, while median incomes in the EU27 rose by 31 per cent.
EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste - Social Europe
Feb 7, 2023 · EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste. As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports today, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda. Platform workers in Turin: many fall through the welfare safety-net because they are not recognised as employees—in 2021 the public prosecutor’s office ...
Building social Europe, winning public confidence
Feb 14, 2022 · Building social Europe, winning public confidence. European trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining. March 25th will mark the 65th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. This established the European Economic Community, bringing together states which had just emerged from war in a project of economic co ...
Addressing poverty and inequality in Europe - Social Europe
Jan 15, 2019 · Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, has published official figures on pan-European poverty and inequality since 2005, in the form of the poverty rate and the S80/S20 ratio.The poverty rate is the proportion of the population which earns less than 60 per cent of median income; since this is a measure of relative rather than absolute poverty, it is also referred to as the at-risk-of-poverty ...
‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions - Social Europe
Jan 13, 2022 · The European Green Deal (EGD) of 2019 included pledges to ‘leave no one behind.’ But what about concrete policies? The Just Transition Mechanism and the proposed Social Climate Fund are among the main European Union measures intended to mitigate the impact of the transition to a zero-carbon economy on the most affected regions, vulnerable individuals and businesses.
EU funds need stronger social conditionality - Social Europe
May 11, 2023 · The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners. In May 2022, the European Commission put forward a proposal to update the rules contained in the financial regulation (FR) covering the European Union’s general budget, to bring them into line with the principles governing the seven-year multiannual financial framework (MFF ...