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09/09/2016
Social Agenda n°45 – Skills: a new agenda
In the coming months, the European Commission will take ten initiatives to implement the New Skills Agenda for Europe which it adopted on 10 June.
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06/09/2016
Recent social policy initiatives in Austria, Estonia, Hungary and Iceland
Six new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) have just become available and provide information on recent policy initiatives in Austria, Estonia, Hungary and Iceland
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24/08/2016
Towards better social statistics for a social Europe
Today the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation on new, integrated ways to collect and use data from social surveys so as to better support policy making in general and social policy in particular.
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02/08/2016
Recent social policy initiatives in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia
Seven new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) have just become available.
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01/08/2016
Policy initiatives on refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, data protection and social assistance beneficiaries
Six new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) have just become available and provide information on recent policy initiatives in Luxembourg, FYR Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Turkey.
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29/07/2016
Commission proposes €5.3 million from Globalisation Fund for former Microsoft workers in Finland
The European Commission has proposed to provide Finland with €5.3 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 1,441 former Microsoft workers to find new jobs.
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22/07/2016
Summer holidays – but not for everyone!
Schools are closed, summer holidays are here, and also this blog is having its well-deserved summer break. Like many of you, authors of Evidence in Focus are leaving their desks to travel in Europe and beyond.
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20/07/2016
Posting of Workers: Commission discusses concerns of national Parliaments
The College adopted today a Communication re-examining its proposal for a revision of the Posting of Workers Directive in the context of the subsidiarity control mechanism that several national parliaments triggered in May.
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15/07/2016
Update on social policies in Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia and Finland
Five new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) have just become available and provide information on recent policy initiatives in Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia and Finland.
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14/07/2016
Report shows first results of Fund for European aid to the most deprived - providing food aid and social integration
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) contributes to alleviating the worst forms of poverty in the EU, such as food deprivation, child poverty and homelessness.