Documents Ghailani, Dalila 55 results

"As Europe grapples with geopolitical upheavals, economic shifts and the urgency of a just, green transition, the future of strong social policies at EU level may seem uncertain. How can the EU balance security and competitiveness without compromising its social and just transition commitments? What lessons can be learned from the successes and setbacks of the von der Leyen I Commission? How will the new economic governance framework affect Social Europe? These are the key questions that guide Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024.

With the EU entering a new political cycle under the von der Leyen II Commission, concerns are mounting over whether Social Europe can withstand the growing dominance of competitiveness and security imperatives. While significant steps have been taken in the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the shift toward competitiveness as the EU's primary objective raises doubts over the future of social progress. Moreover, while the frugal nature of the Stability and Growth Pact underpinning the common currency has been somewhat alleviated by a reform of its preventive arm, fiscal consolidation remains a significant policy steamroller. This book assesses key developments such as the Platform Work Directive, advances in pay transparency, and the EU's evolving approach to just transition, while critically examining the changing role of social policy.

The new Commission's focus on skills, training, and quality reflects a broader transformation of the EU's social agenda — one that emphasizes investment in human capital as a means to drive competitiveness. Yet, as this volume highlights, this ‘social investment' approach risks neglecting the buffer function of welfare states: the essential role of social protection in shielding citizens from economic shocks and inequality. In turn, this raises a fundamental question: will Social Europe continue its momentum, or will it be sidelined by the EU's evolving priorities? With rising geopolitical tensions and pressures for increased security spending, the risk of social investment being crowded out is real. The policy shifts documented in this book invite reflection on whether the EU's ‘social turn' of recent years can be sustained — or whether a new paradigm is emerging, one in which social rights must compete for relevance in an era defined by competitiveness and security challenges."

"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 OSE Research paper reviews the austerity measures adopted by a number of Member States, and discusses their impact on certain economic and social rights, including education, health, pensions and work. It then elicits the reaction of international human rights bodies which denounced these infringements, while comparing the dynamism of the national constitutional courts to the timidity of the European courts and exploring the question of liability in cases of violations of fundamental rights. In conclusion, Dalila Ghailani argues that in recent years, the importance attached to human rights has declined together with state budgets, but that, unlike national budgets, these rights have not benefited from bail-out plans."

"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."

"This year's stock-take of Social Europe - Social Policy in the European Union: state of play 2018 - reports on recent EU and national social policymaking with a focus on the game-changing advent of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) one year ago. A dominant feature of this annual review of social policy in the European Union is the way in which the EPSR has slowly but steadily started to influence EU policymaking, well before it was politically endorsed in November 2017. The Pillar's new ‘rights-based social investmentapproach' is at present leaving its mark on the 2018 European Semester and has triggered two batches of legislation: the ‘Pillar Package' and the ‘Social Fairness Package'. These developments are critically visited in the 19th edition of this edited volume, looking at both their positive and negative outcomes as well as their potential to serve as steps towards a fully-fledged ‘European Social Union' (ESU)."