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"This 2017 edition of Benchmarking working Europe focuses on the question 'overcoming cleavages across the EU?'. It analyses in four chapters and with the help of 58 visual graphs latest trends and outcomes of European policies in the areas of macro-economics, wages and collective bargaining, labour markets and, last but not least, social dialogue and workers' participation.
The Benchmarking working Europe 2017 demonstrates that the European Union is experiencing increasing social divergences and underlines the need for new policies that can generate higher living standards for all, based on fair integration and upwards convergence."

The first is the results of the Lisbon Summit held in March and, in particular, its impact on the European employment strategy. Secondly, the report could hardly omit to offer a detailed analysis of the Social Agenda adopted at the Nice European Summit in December and which defines – for the period until at least 2003, when it may be revised – the European Union's social policy priorities. The third development relates to social security concerns, with special reference to the fight against social exclusion and poverty on the one hand and the future of retirement pensions on the other. The last area of focus is the enlargement of the EU to the countries of central and eastern Europe, a development which is giving rise to an increasing number of questions, particularly as regards its social implications. The analysis and evaluation of these four important areas of concern offers insight into the rationales and dynamics currently at work in the European institutions in the social policy field.

"The report highlights that the social situation in the EU continues to benefit from the economic recovery and the reform efforts made by Member States in recent years. Of particular note is the continued improvement in the labour market situation, with significant reductions in unemployment, while deprivation and social exclusion are also declining. Nevertheless, the recovery has so far had a rather mixed and sometimes limited impact on the other social indicators, and Europe remains far from reaching the Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion target. Several trends of concern are still apparent, including the still widening depth of poverty risk in many Member States, the rising trend in in-work poverty risk in several countries, and the still increasing risk of poverty for people in (quasi-)jobless households."

"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 »."