News
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12/06/2018
11th FEAD Network meeting: Building partnerships between FEAD and ESF initiatives
The 11th FEAD Network meeting will take place on 19 June 2018 in Brussels. The meeting will focus on building partnerships to improve FEAD support.
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06/06/2018
Social Agenda survey: a few clicks by 30 June
Readers of Social Agenda can provide their feedback on the magazine until 30 June.
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04/06/2018
#MySocialRights photo competition - Discover the winners
The three main winners of the #MySocialRights photo competition attended the European Youth Event, in Strasbourg, where they were awarded an Interrail ticket to discover Europe.
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30/05/2018
EU budget: a new Social Fund and Globalisation Adjustment Fund
For the next long-term EU budget, the Commission proposes to further strengthen the Union’s social dimension with a renewed European Social Fund, the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), and a strengthened and more effective European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).
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23/05/2018
European Semester 2018 Spring Package: Commission issues recommendations for Member States to achieve sustainable, inclusive and long-term growth
The European Commission presents today the 2018 country-specific recommendations (CSRs), setting out its economic policy guidance for Member States for the next 12 to 18 months.
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18/05/2018
Youth Guarantee: latest data shows progress but more work is needed
The Youth Guarantee, supported by the Youth Employment Initiative, has helped make a dent in youth unemployment and inactivity.
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17/05/2018
10th FEAD Network Meeting: FEAD’s contribution to the delivery of the European Pillar of Social Rights
The tenth FEAD Network meeting took place on 24-25 April in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden. The event focused on 'FEAD’s contribution to the delivery of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR)’ principles.
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17/05/2018
EU and Thailand launch Labour Dialogue
The EU and Thailand launched a bilateral Labour Dialogue with the objective to promote decent work through closer cooperation, exchange of best practices and mutual learning.
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17/05/2018
Social Agenda 51 - Fair mobility and social fairness
The April issue of our 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 Recommendation on access to social protection for the almost 40% of people employed in the EU who are either in an “atypical” employment situation or self-employed.
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16/05/2018
First results of Poland’s Family 500+ programme released
In April 2016, the Polish government launched the programme “Family 500+” (Rodzina 500+) to boost birth-rates and reduce child poverty by improving living conditions of large families. The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) presents some early indicators of the programme’s progress and impact.