News
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29/04/2009
Reassessing the role of older people in Europe
Eurofound launches special website for European Day on Solidarity and Cooperation between Generations.
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28/04/2009
Intergenerational solidarity: key to responding to demographic ageing
The first European Day of Solidarity between Generations - an initiative of civil society organisations - took place on 29 April 2009.
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24/04/2009
European platform launched to better coordinate efforts to tackle Roma exclusion
A new European platform for Roma inclusion met for the first time in Prague on 24 April 2009, to improve coordination of national actions to tackle the exclusion of Europe's biggest ethnic minority.
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22/04/2009
European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS)
The Commission welcomes the publication of the first set of results of the survey made by the Fundamental Rights Agency on the experiences of immigrants and minorities with racist crime and discrimination, which it will study carefully.
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20/04/2009
Declaration by Commissioner Vladimír Špidla on violence against Roma
Following a brutal arson attack on a Roma family - including their small child - in Vítkov, Czech Republic, I wish to express my deep sympathy to the victims and assure them of my solidarity.
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20/04/2009
Feasibility Study: PENMICRO Monitoring pension developments through micro socio-economic instruments based on individual data sources
This study commissioned by the European Commission to the TARKI Social Research Institute charts out the existing tools and datasets for modelling and monitoring monitor life time earnings and related acquisition of pension rights. It also assesses capacity for future developments.
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14/04/2009
Assessment of the 2008-2010 National Reform Programmes for Growth and Jobs from a social inclusion perspective: The extent of synergies between growth and jobs policies and social inclusion policies
In October 2008, EU countries submitted their 2008-2010 National Reform Programmes for Growth and Jobs (NRPs), which included a report on the implementation of the previous (2005-2008) NRPs.
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07/04/2009
The financial crisis has put a sharper focus on pensions systems
The financial crisis has put a sharper focus on pensions systems, including the new funded schemes set up in many Central and Eastern European Countries.
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01/04/2009
Combining choice, quality and equity in social services (Denmark)
Several EU Member States have introduced innovations in the provision of social services in recent years, motivated by a number of reasons, not least in order to provide a wider range of choice to recipients, to help ensure quality and to contain costs, while at the same time maintaining equality of access to the services concerned. Accordingly, they have experimented with giving final consumers more say over the services they receive and the form in which they are delivered, in particular, through `personal budget' schemes under which users of services can choose how to spend the money allocated to them, or through voucher schemes, which are similar in kind. Both have the effect of introducing market mechanisms into the provision of social services, of linking supply more closely with demand and of introducing competition between providers, so giving them an incentive to maintain quality and to keep costs down.
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26/03/2009
External evaluation of the 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All (EYEO)
The final report and its 4 thematic reports are at last available under "related documents" on this webpage.