Financing social and cohesion policy in an enlarged EU: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?

The development of the Open Method of Coordination, agreement on the Lisbon Agenda and EU enlargement offered the prospect of a new and substantial EU social policy agenda. This article considers EU social and cohesion policies in the context of the recent negotiation of the EU budget for 2007—13. We find the Commission's wish to redistribute EU spending in favour of these policy areas and new member states was thwarted by key political features of EU budget making: CAP spending levels which are downwardly sticky; institutional arrangements which provide for budget making as, at best, a zero-sum game; and the preferences of contributor member states in the EU-15 to contain overall spending while preserving their net budget positions. Questions are thus raised as to the ability of the EU to make any progress, from a budgetary perspective, on the social and cohesion policy agenda in an enlarged EU

Employment in Europe 2007: Statistical Annex

Statistical annex to accompany Employment in Europe 2007, including macro economic indicators, key employment indicators, and data sources and definitions

Employment in Europe 2003: Statistical Annex

Statistical annex to accompany Employment in Europe 2007, including macro economic indicators, key employment indicators, and data sources and definitions

Employment in Europe 2005: Statistical Annex

Statistical annex to accompany Employment in Europe 2005, including macro economic indicators, key employment indicators, and data sources and definitions

ERM Quarterly, Quarter 3, October 2016

In this issue • Support instruments in focus: innovative business transfer measures • Case in focus: Major overhaul in Polish mining sector • Case in focus: Planned Caterpillar closure at Gosselie

ERM Quarterly, Quarter 4, January 2015

In this issue: • Restructuring support measures in focus: Public employment incentives • Russian sanctions and company restructuring • Case in focus: Lloyd’s Banking Group (UK

Employment in Europe 2006: Statistical Annex

Statistical annex to accompany Employment in Europe 2006, including macro economic indicators, key employment indicators, and data sources and definitions

Equal Rights in Practice: Key Voices 2004

[Excerpt] We have thus chosen to focus this year on the critical factors and actors in the enforcement of the anti-discrimination Directives emanating from Article 13 of the Amsterdam Treaty on “Race” and “Equal treatment in the workplace” This collection of independent opinions, bringing together views from stakeholders ranging from National Authorities, NGOs, specialised bodies and experts in the field, provides a vivid testimony to the processes which are leading law and policy makers from paper to practice; from the written legislation, through to the day-today realities of changing attitudes and practices throughout European societies

ERM Quarterly, Quarter 1, April 2015

In this issue • Restructuring support measures in focus: Supporting access to finance • Case in focus: Job creation at Deutsche Post DHL • Sector in focus: Job loss at Poczta Polsk

European Union Pension Directive

[Excerpt] This Directive thus represents a first step on the way to an internal market for occupational retirement provision organised on a European scale. By setting the ‘prudent person’ rule as the underlying principle for capital investment and making it possible for institutions to operate across borders, the redirection of savings into the sector of occupational retirement provision is encouraged, thus contributing to economic and social progress. The prudential rules laid down in this Directive are intended both to guarantee a high degree of security for future pensioners through the imposition of stringent supervisory standards, and to clear the way for the efficient management of occupational pension schemes