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"This report aims to contribute to the debate on how best to address the risks of emerging nanotechnologies and how to promote coordinated and convergent approaches in the EU and US. It presents the main findings of a project that was carried out by a consortium of research institutions: Chatham House, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the United States."

"This article presents an analysis of democratisation in countries of south-eastern Europe in the context of EU membership. After a brief theoretical overview of the EU's capacity for democratisation, the article highlights the increased attention that researchers have paid to the quality of democracy and, in particular, to the rule of law as key mechanisms guaranteeing the successful functioning of representative democracy. The purpose of the article is to find empirical evidence for whether the EU has learned lessons from the accession of Bulgaria and Romania that can apply in its relations with candidate countries from the western Balkans regarding democratisation. The research objective is the interaction between the EU and candidate countries, realised through the main instrument of pre-accession conditionality – the annual reports of the European Commission which are used to monitor and evaluate the progress of each applicant towards meeting EU membership criteria. The author concludes that this leads the Commission to a constancy of approach but which leaves aside the issue of the specificity of candidate countries. "

"This volume is the 20th anniversary edition of Social policy in the EU: state of play. Coordinated by Cécile Barbier and Philippe Pochet, the first edition covered the year 1999 and was published as a collaborative project between the European Social Observatory (OSE) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in 2000.
This anniversary edition looks back at the main developments in EU social policymaking over the past two decades. Key questions addressed in this volume include:
what was the place of the social dimension during the financial and economic crisis?
Who has driven, and who has braked, EU social policymaking?
Which instruments does the EU have at its disposal for ‘market correcting' policies?
And last but not least, what are the next steps in the further implementation of the EU's social dimension, especially in the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights?
The editors provide also an analytical chronology of the main developments of the EU's social dimension over the past twenty years and summarise the key messages put across by the authors of the book's chapters regarding key EU social policy areas. The chapter also discusses some of the recent debates on the EU's social agenda under the new von der Leyen European Commission, while providing policy recommendations drawing on the analyses presented in this book.
Despite many optimistic statements by the EU leaders, social policy remains a ‘nice to have' (if and when the economic and political context allows for it), not a ‘must have'."

"Ce volume marque le 20e anniversaire du Bilan social de l'Union européenne. Coordonnée par Cécile Barbier et Philippe Pochet, la première édition couvrait l'année 1999 et a été publiée en 2000 dans le cadre d'un projet de collaboration entre l'Observatoire social européen (OSE) et l'Institut syndical européen (ETUI).

Cette édition anniversaire revient sur les principales évolutions de la politique sociale de l'UE au cours des deux dernières décennies. Parmi les questions clés abordées dans ce volume, citons les suivantes :

Quelle a été la place de la dimension sociale au cours de la crise financière et économique ?
Qui a conduit et qui a freiné l'élaboration des politiques sociales de l'UE ?
De quels instruments l'UE dispose-t-elle pour les politiques de « correction du marché » ?
Enfin, quelles sont les prochaines étapes de la mise en oeuvre de la dimension sociale de l'UE, en particulier dans le contexte du socle européen des droits sociaux ?
Le dernier chapitre fournit une chronologie analytique des principales évolutions de la dimension sociale de l'UE au cours des vingt dernières années et résume les messages clés identifiés par les auteurs des chapitres dans les principaux domaines de la politique sociale de l'UE. Le chapitre aborde également certains des débats récents sur l'agenda social de l'UE sous la nouvelle Commission von der Leyen, tout en fournissant des recommandations politiques qui s'appuient sur les analyses présentées dans cet ouvrage.

Malgré les nombreuses déclarations optimistes des dirigeants européens, la politique sociale reste un « luxe » (à s'offrir si et quand le contexte économique et politique le permet) et non une « nécessité »."