News
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04/10/2016
The Youth Guarantee in practice: a hobby becomes a career for Aristea
After leaving school, Aristea Zachari was unemployed for three months and increasingly dependent on her parents. A visit to the local career office introduced her to the Youth Guarantee scheme and the opportunities it offers unemployed young people in Greece.
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04/10/2016
A New Europass Framework: helping people make their skills and qualifications more visible
Today, the Commission has adopted a proposal to revise the Europass Decision.
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30/09/2016
EU Promoting Workers' Rights in Myanmar - Second Stakeholders Meeting in Yangon
Today the second Stakeholders' Forum of the 'Initiative to Promote Fundamental Labour Rights and Practices in Myanmar' took place in Yangon, Myanmar.
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22/09/2016
Who uses childcare? Inequalities in the use of formal early childhood education and care among very young children
A recent OECD Policy Brief on early childhood education and care (ECEC) discusses the importance of ECEC, the current landscape in Europe and the policy structures which could help young children and contribute towards breaking the cycle of disadvantage. ECEC matters. When it is affordable parents have the opportunity to engage in the workforce and bring in additional income. When it is of high quality, children can enhance their cognitive and social development, particularly children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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16/09/2016
Recent social policy initiatives in Germany, Liechtenstein, Greece, France and Denmark
Six new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) have just become available and provide information on recent policy initiatives in Germany, Liechtenstein, Greece and France.
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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.