News
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19/02/2016
Youth Guarantee in practice: from unemployed to marble stonemason
With support from the Youth Guarantee scheme, many young people in Europe have managed to find a job or follow a course which gives their career a boost. This is Eduard's story, from Romania.
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17/02/2016
Self-employed and entrepreneurship: breaking the barriers to job creation
Promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship is an important way of creating new jobs and enhancing the labour market opportunities for the unemployed and other disadvantaged groups.
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16/02/2016
Commission proposes almost 1.8 million euro from Globalisation Fund to support former Volvo Trucks workers in Sweden
The European Commission has proposed to provide Sweden with almost 1.8 million euro from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 500 former workers of Volvo Trucks in Sweden to find new jobs.
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11/02/2016
Labour market shows positive signs: highest overall EU employment rate since 2008
The 2015 winter edition of the Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review shows improvements on the EU labour market.
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11/02/2016
Peer Review in the Netherlands: Social community teams against poverty
The Dutch government’s declared aim is to move from a welfare state to a “participation society” built on citizens’ self-reliance and networking. Large parts of the social security system have been devolved to the municipalities, which are expected to follow an integrated approach to social services, while offering solutions tailored to each individual case. In response, most municipalities have set up Social Community Teams. This Peer Review, held in The Hague, discussed the use of SCTs to combat poverty.
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10/02/2016
Healthcare and pension reforms in Cyprus and Serbia respectively
Two new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) are now available and provide information on a recent healthcare reform in Cyprus and pension reform in Serbia.
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09/02/2016
Social Agenda – Pensions, disabled people and refugees
Just when the social partners are about to negotiate on how to better manage age at work, Social Agenda n°43 looks at the pension issue from all angles following the publication of two EU reports, on population ageing and on pension adequacy.
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05/02/2016
Youth Guarantee in practice: opening doors to a great IT career
With support from the Youth Guarantee scheme, many young people in Europe have managed to find a job or follow a course which gives their career a boost. This is André's story, from Portugal.
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04/02/2016
Launch of public consultation on the European Social Fund during the 2007-2013 programming period
The European Commission has launched a public consultation in the context of ex-post evaluation of the European Social Fund (ESF) during the 2007-2013 programming period.
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03/02/2016
Different models of work and welfare in ageing Europe
Europe's population is getting older. As a consequence of this demographic trend and recent pension reforms that increased the statutory retirement age and curtailed early retirement options, the number of older workers aged 55 and above increased by more than 12 million between 2004 and 2014 in the EU28, bringing their total number to 38 million.