The Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Swedish law
Sweden took a historic next step by incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law. It is a step to further protect the rights of the ...
Sweden took a historic next step by incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law. It is a step to further protect the rights of the ...
The 2019 Annual Report of the Social Protection Committee (SPC) delivers on the Committee’s core task to monitor the social situation in the EU and the developments in social protection ...
The 2030 Agenda asks member states to conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels, and these should be country-led and country-driven. These Voluntary National ...
The Investing in Children Recommendation did not have the expected impact on policy reform in the Member States. Still, 23,7 million children today face the daily hardship of growing up ...
The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) presents a round-up of the latest developments in child and family policy in EU member states in August 2019.
The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) has published its second annual thematic report.
The amendments to the law on maternity leave payments (the Law on Financial Support for Families with Children), which came into force in July 2018, proved unfavourable for some categories ...
The European Parliament and the Council have come to an agreement on the Commission's second proposal to broaden the list of recognised cancer-causing chemicals in the workplace.
The Civil Liberties Committee agreed on Wednesday to ask the European Commission to table, by 31 March 2019, a legislative proposal establishing a European Humanitarian Visa.
The memo is aimed at policymakers who are looking for ideas about possible practices to implement, as well as researchers who are looking for a quick overview of existing practices ...
MISSOC (Mutual Information System on Social Protection) is an important online source of up-to-date and comparable information on social protection systems in European countries.
The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) has published a policy memo on approaches to education for unaccompanied migrant children in Europe. This memo is the third in a series ...
Subject: The situation of women with disabilities | Ref.: Exploratory opinion requested by the European Parliament.
The April issue of the Social Agenda magazine focuses on the notion of fairness: fair cross-border mobility, with the creation of a European Labour Authority; and social fairness with a ...
Across the world, there are an estimated 31 million children living outside their country of birth, and there are an estimated 5.4 million child migrants in Europe. The EU has ...
Today at the Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth, the European Pillar of Social Rights was signed by Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Antonio Tajani, President of ...
Every year the European Commission issues country-specific recommendations (CSRs) as part of the European Semester. The CSRs set policy objectives for the next year. As per their name CSRs are ...
Five new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) are now available and provide information on recent social policy developments in Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Slovakia and Sweden. ...
In the first quarter of 2017 self-employed people made up 15% of the workforce in EU Member States. Some people choose self-employment as it can provide flexibility and a better ...
Updated information on social protection systems in all EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – including brief descriptions of their organisation and summaries of the social protection of ...
Six new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) are now available and provide information on recent social protection and social inclusion developments in the field of ...
The European Commission released the European Pillar of Social Rights (the Social Pillar) on 26 April 2017. EDF welcomes the ambition of the Social Pillar to promote the rights to ...
The 2017 Joint Employment Report (JER) and its Scoreboard of Key Employment and Social Indicators, adopted on 3 March 2017, provide a snapshot of recent employment and social policies implemented ...