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WEBSub-minimum wages: young people, old attitudes. Tadgh Quill-Manley. Laggard European Union member states must act to ensure abolition of sub-minimum rates of pay. Our mission is to strengthen democracy by discussing solutions to the most pressing political, economic and social issues of our time.
Politics Archives • Social Europe
WEB3 days ago · Politics. Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people.
Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU
WEB2 days ago · The gender employment gap, at 10.7 per cent in 2022, has narrowed over time: 69.3 per cent of working-age women across the EU are employed, compared with 80 per cent of men—a transformation from a generation ago. There has however been stagnation in recent years and the continuing differential …
A new global economic consensus - Social Europe
WEBOct 14, 2021 · Today’s crisis conditions make a new global consensus essential for humanity’s survival on the planet. We are on the cusp of a long-overdue paradigm shift. But this progress could easily be reversed. Most economic institutions are still governed by outdated rules which render them unable to marshal the responses needed to …
The Social Summit—and beyond - Social Europe
WEBMay 7, 2021 · The summit that Portugal’s prime minister has convened today will discuss the steps needed to realise the promise of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which has the potential steadily to raise economic and social standards across the continent. The summit must engender a real commitment by all EU member states to implement the social pillar’s 20 principles, including fair wages, secure ...
The ‘union of equality’ requires leadership - socialeurope.eu
WEB3 days ago · This provided the necessary architecture to implement ‘gender mainstreaming and intersectionality’ in all policy domains. Allied to the commitment of the president, frequently repeated, to ‘equality for all and equality in all its senses’, it gave a definite impulse to the ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2020-25 in March 2020, which was followed by four more strategies: the EU Anti ...
EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste - Social Europe
WEBFeb 7, 2023 · Unifying framework. For the EU to be a social union, supporting national welfare states, it must be guided by shared aspirations. That is why the 2017 European Pillar of Social Rights was and still is such an important initiative. It should remain our unifying framework for the policies of social protection and social investment whose necessity is underscored by Diamantopoulou’s report.
Society Archives • Social Europe
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page brings together Social Europe articles on society.
Stepping up the EU agenda on social citizenship
WEBApr 12, 2024 · Becoming adults: Young people in a post-pandemic world. Eurofound's new report, Becoming adults: Young people in a post-pandemic world, explores young people’s wishes and plans for the future—and the wellbeing outcomes related to these plans—in the context of the current labour market and housing situation and progress on the implementation of the European Union’s reinforced Youth ...
Recovery and resilience - socialeurope.eu
WEBOur project partner. The National Recovery and Resilience Plans are key to the delivery of the €750 billion economic-recovery package agreed by the European Council in July 2020. These plans are supposed to support such goals as the green transition and digital transformation. Many have suggested that after the pandemic there can be no ...