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Over the years, the EU has provided funding support for various initiatives related to skills, education, training, youth, volunteering, and sport through multiple programmes. In the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF), key funding programmes included Erasmus+, the EU's flagship programme for education, training, youth and sport, and the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), the programme for young people to engage in solidarity activities. According to the European Commission, the proposal ...

Durante el período parcial de sesiones de febrero, está previsto que el Parlamento Europeo debata y vote una serie de recomendaciones destinadas a luchar contra las formas abusivas de subcontratación e intermediación laboral.

Durante su período parcial de sesiones de febrero, se espera que el Parlamento Europeo vote un informe que consta de una serie de recomendaciones destinadas a luchar contra la pobreza y la exclusión social en toda la Unión. El informe tiene por objeto contribuir al debate político previo a la publicación de la nueva estrategia de la UE de lucha contra la pobreza de la Comisión Europea, anunciada en el programa de trabajo de la Comisión para el segundo trimestre de 2026.

According to international standards, children without parental care should grow up in a setting as close as possible to a family or in a small group. After serious concerns had been raised about residential care for children and youths, several EU countries started to transition from institutional to family-based care. In parallel, residential care in small units may still be seen as part of a continuum of services for children and youths with varying needs. In the EU, care for children and youths ...

A special plenary session will take place in Brussels on 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945, and provides an opportunity to remember the victims of the Holocaust and to reaffirm the need for overcoming stereotypes and prejudice.

This study examines how the European Commission and the European Investment Bank measure the impact of their external action programmes and investments on decent and sustainable job creation in Sub Saharan Africa, with particular attention to the Global Gateway. This paper summarises current employment impact assessment practices, recognising their capacity to capture high level direct and indirect employment effects while also identifying clear limitations, especially in harmonising job quality ...

Durante el período parcial de sesiones de enero, se espera que el Parlamento Europeo vote una iniciativa legislativa en la que se pedirá a la Comisión Europea que proponga una nueva Directiva para proteger a los trabajadores en las transiciones ecológica y digital. La Directiva abordaría los retos y oportunidades de una transición justa en el lugar de trabajo y establecería un marco de medidas estratégicas de la UE para las regiones afectadas por la doble transición. El informe pide más financiación ...

This briefing focuses on the Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying the 6th revision of the Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic substances Directive 2004/37/EC (CMRD). The IA states that more than 170,000 workers still lose their lives each year due to work-related illnesses. The IA identifies five problem drivers and details the consequences. The need for an added value EU action is explained in a subsidiarity grid. The general objective is broken into four specific objectives. The preferred options ...

The ECB’s Governing Council set up a High-Level Task Force to recommend simplifications of banking regulation and supervision, chaired by Vice-President Luis De Guindos. On 11 December 2025, the ECB published the task force’ report. This briefing reviews and analyses the proposals and provides context in view of the ECON committee exchange of views with Vice-President De Guindos on 15 January 2026.

In this background paper, the authors trace regulatory and policy proposals for further EU action for an added role of the EU in solving some aspects of the health workforce challenge. The authors sketch the legal competences of the EU in this sphere to take legislative action, list and analyse the proposals that have been put forward at various levels including the European Parliament. The authors also present the different policy and legal options that can be considered for adoption.