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"This report examines whether EU Member States are converging or diverging with regard to working conditions and quality of work and employment. While the findings reveal a relative divergence in Europe with the joining of the new Member States in 2004 and 2007, the results confirm that the gap is closing and that in some of the older Member States there is evidence of disimprovements in some areas, such as prevalence of work intensity and reduced access to training. Data from four European Working Conditions Surveys is used to compare trends across a fifteen-year time span."

"This report from the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) examines (sub)national social protection and inclusion policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the 27 EU Member States, the UK, and the 7 candidate and potential candidate countries. It reveals an overall rapid reaction through the introduction of (mostly) temporary measures - primarily relaxing eligibility conditions, increasing benefit levels and creating new ad hoc social and job protection schemes. These emergency measures helped avert a massive social crisis and some would have seemed impossible one year previously. Yet they also highlighted the weaknesses and gaps in existing social protection and inclusion policies, and the pressing need to address these. Although these measures were the main tools used to tackle the socio-economic impact of the pandemic, the report underlines their limited transformative potential for countries' social protection systems. It proposes a series of specific actions that could usefully be considered at national and/or EU level."

"With the aim of contributing to the ongoing policy dialogue between the European Commission, Member States and (potential) candidate countries, the European Commission asked the 35 country teams of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) to look at how the eligibility conditions and benefit entitlements of social protection influence the capacity of young people to access the schemes and to highlight the main gaps and obstacles faced by young people in accessing these schemes.

This Synthesis Report provides a factual overview of the access for young people to social protection schemes for five categories of cash benefits in the ESPN countries, including an overview of the main gaps/obstacles:

unemployment benefits
maternity/paternity/parental benefits
sickness and healthcare benefits
Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) benefits
housing benefits"

"This foresight exercise was undertaken to explore how Europe's labour markets and welfare sys tems could evolve by 2040 under different combinations of global economic integration, climate policy ambition and technological change. Its aim was to assist policymakers with anticipating structural shifts, identifying strategies that remain relevant across a range of uncertain futures, and designing policies capable of supporting both competitiveness and social cohesion. The study sought to develop plausible and contrasting scenarios for Europe's socio-economic future, assess the risks and opportunities each scenario presents for labour markets, welfare systems and social equity, co-design policy recommendations tailored to each scenario while identifying cross-cutting “no-regrets” areas for action, and strengthen the capacity of policymak ers and stakeholders to think and plan strategically under uncertainty."

"This report aims at describing and interpreting how occupational welfare (OW) schemes, especially supplementary pension schemes (SPS) and temporary unemployment (TU) schemes are developing in Belgium and what has been and still is the role of various actors, focusing mainly on social partners and the State. The report shows that the debate on OW has emerged recently in Belgium, mainly focused on supplementary pensions and health insurance provisions. The issue of SPS is a political and financial one. Over the past decade, the government has encouraged employers to introduce pension schemes for their workers in response to the ageing population and the expected difficulties in financing state pensions in the future. Regarding unemployment protection, the TU scheme is a particular form of general statutory unemployment insurance protection. It also has features related to occupational welfare and is limited to workers employed in companies initiating a specific procedure to access the TU scheme. It is not an essential issue in Belgian social dialogue. The results are based on research and reports published since 2003, available administrative and statistical data, and documents made public by the social partners. Relevant collective agreements in the retail and automotive sectors were analysed and interviews with trade unionists carried out."

"La succession de deux importantes crises économiques depuis 2007 a contribué à aggraver la précarité et la pauvreté au sein de l'Union européenne. Tant l'Union européenne que ses États membres s'accordent sur ce constat, tout comme ils s'accordent pour considérer que les systèmes de revenu minimum constituent un outil important pour lutter contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale en garantissant la sécurité des personnes tout en jouant un rôle pertinent dans la redistribution des richesses et la garantie de la solidarité et de la justice sociale."

"The two successive major economic crises since 2007 have contributed to a worsening of poverty and insecurity within the European Union. Both the European Union and its Member States agree that this is the case, just as they agree that minimum income schemes are an important tool for combating poverty and social exclusion, providing a safety net for people whilst playing a relevant role in redistributing wealth and ensuring solidarity and social justice. "