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Key Issues in the European Council - State of play in March 2024
This EPRS publication, 'Key issues in the European Council', which is updated every quarter to coincide with European Council meetings, seeks to provide an overview of the institution's activities on major EU issues. It analyses 12 broad policy areas, explaining the legal and political background, the main priorities and orientations defined by the European Council and the results of its involvement to date, as well as some of the future challenges in each policy field.
Main activities of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs 2019-2024
The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission proclaimed the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017. Spelled out in 20 principles, the social pillar has since served as a compass towards building a stronger social Europe. In the related action plan, the Commission set out concrete initiatives and, after the Porto Social Summit of May 2021, EU lawmakers committed to headline targets for 2030 regarding employment, training, and poverty. Consequently, this legislative term has seen ...
Gender Mainstreaming in the parliamentary work of the LIBE Committee
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, is aimed at assessing the state of implementation of gender mainstreaming activities in the parliamentary work of the LIBE Committee and, particularly, it analyses the adoption of a gender mainstreaming and intersectional approach in LIBE’s legislative and non-legislative work in the 2021–2022 period.
Europees Sociaal Fonds Plus
Het Europees Sociaal Fonds (ESF) is opgericht bij het Verdrag van Rome om de mobiliteit en werkgelegenheidskansen van werknemers te verbeteren. De taken en werkingsregels van het ESF zijn vervolgens herzien om recht te doen aan de veranderende economische en werkgelegenheidssituatie in de lidstaten en aan de ontwikkeling van de op EU-niveau vastgestelde politieke prioriteiten.
Policy Departments’ Monthly Highlights March 2024
European cross-border associations
Responding to repeated calls from the European Parliament to propose common Union-wide rules to facilitate the cross-border activity of non-profit organisations (NPOs), the Commission has proposed a directive on European cross-border associations (ECBAs). Parliament is due to vote on the report on this proposal, submitted by its Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), during its March plenary session.
Hoe Europa meer voor je kan doen op tien manieren
Mondiale uitdagingen zoals de klimaatverandering, geopolitieke conflicten, de uitholling van democratische beginselen en sociale ongelijkheid zijn van invloed op het dagelijks leven en toekomstperspectief van mensen. Een collectief Europees antwoord kan de komende tien jaar helpen deze uitdagingen aan te pakken en besparingen op te leveren van maar liefst € 3 biljoen per jaar. Dit is ongeveer 18 % van het bruto binnenlands product (bbp) van de EU, oftewel € 6 700 per burger per jaar. Aansluitend ...
The European Social Security Pass (ESSPASS) - A Digital Enforcement Tool for Labour Rights?
Social and youth housing in the EU
Access to housing in the EU has become problematic in recent years. Demography and urbanisation-related structural factors, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine, soaring energy prices, the cost-of-living crisis and (already high) housing prices that keep rising are preventing many people from accessing decent housing solutions. The lack of affordable housing supply only adds to this situation. These difficulties affect not only low- but now also middle-income households, as ...
Research for REGI committee - Regional connectivity through an adequate transport infrastructure
This At a glance note summaries the study focusing on regional connectivity through an adequate transport infrastructure. The study provides an overview of the aspects of regional connectivity through adequate cohesion policy investments in rail and road transport infrastructures, mostly in the programming period 2014-2020. In detail, this analysis covers all types of transport-related investments (for goods and people) financed from the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund. Moreover ...