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"L'article analyse les politiques et les dispositifs légaux en matière de conciliation vie familiale-vie professionnelle en Bulgarie depuis le début de la crise en 2008. Toutefois, leurs derniers développements sont davantage liés à la transition politique, économique et sociale après 1989. En effet, les politiques publiques en matière de conciliation ont été fortement influencées par la considérable détérioration de la situation démographique mais également par les exigences de l'acquis communautaire lors du processus d'adhésion, largement défendues par les acteurs sociaux. Malgré un réseau de services de gardes d'enfants dense et abordable, et des arrangements législatifs en faveur de l'emploi féminin, la Bulgarie n'en est toutefois qu'au début d'un long cheminement en ce qui concerne la prise de conscience de cette problématique."

"Un des arguments majeurs lors de la mise en place des réformes visant à instaurer des systèmes de retraite à trois piliers en Pologne, Hongrie et Bulgarie était de protéger ces systèmes du « risque politique », c'est-à-dire de pressions politiques pouvant peser sur eux. Comment, dès lors, expliquer que les trois pays aient remis ces réformes structurelles en cause à peine une dizaine d'années après leur mise en place ?Les réponses se trouvent-elles dans la philosophie même de ces réformes, dans un défaut de mise en œuvre, ou encore dans des développements politiques instables ? Pour apporter des éléments de réponse, l'article se penche, d'un côté, sur l'influence idéationnelle d'une constellation d'acteurs internationaux et d'un autre côté sur l'appropriation et la mise en place de ces réformes systémiques par les acteurs nationaux. Dans le contexte européen, où les réformes des retraites sont à l'ordre du jour de plusieurs des anciens membres de l'Union européenne, comprendre la dynamique et les transformations de pays ayant conduits ces réformes systémiques en introduisant une composante importante en capitalisation permet d'éclairer certaines logiques à l'œuvre dans l'agenda européen."

"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 policy brief examines issues surrounding recent cuts in pensions provision for workers in arduous and hazardous jobs (WAHJ). Such workers have historically enjoyed better provision because of the strong possibility of them having to take early retirement, but historic arrangements are now under threat. The policy brief presents some data on the working conditions and pensions patterns of WAHJ and provides some policy suggestions for their trade union representatives. "

"All chapters of Social policy in the EU: state of play 2020 consider the consequences of the unfolding public health crisis. Covid‑19's hijacking of the book had important implications for the contributors, whom we asked not only to analyse key developments in the EU social agenda during 2019 but also to describe the initial Covid‑19-driven EU and domestic policies between January and July 2020, thereby pushing forward the book's time horizon by six months.

The European Social Observatory (OSE) has again worked closely with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and renowned external scholars to draw up this year's edition of the book. Through this collaborative publication, we aim to contribute to the debate between policymakers, social stakeholders and the research community, while providing accessible information and analysis for practitioners and students of European integration. This year's Bilan social in many ways complements the 20th-anniversary issue of the ETUI's Benchmarking Working Europe, which provides a state-of-the-art analysis of the impact of the pandemic on the world of work."

"The lockdown and other restrictive measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession have had a strong impact on labour markets worldwide. As far as the European Union (EU) is concerned, the accelerated fall in total employment was the ‘sharpest decline ever observed over two successive quarters since 1995'. Unemployment, however, decreased moderately over 2020, although to differing extents in individual Member States and at different paces during the various lockdown phases. This exceptional and unpredictable context puts the pivotal role of social protection squarely in the spotlight, reminding policymakers and citizens of the essential role of strong social security to cushion against potential disastrous social impacts and job destruction. Various job retention schemes have played an important role as automatic stabilisers to preserve millions of jobs.

The purpose of the present study is to map key social protection measures taken during the pandemic from the perspective of fragmentation of labour market statuses, notably by focusing on non-standard workers and the self-employed as well as taking into account the gender dimension of these social protection measures. The analysis focuses on the 27 EU Member States, covering the period of the first wave of the pandemic: from the beginning of the lockdown measures (for most countries at the beginning of March 2020) until 31 December 2020.

The remainder of the publication is structured as follows. Section 1 discusses the relevance and research design and explains the broader project of which this analysis is part. Section 2 describes the measures taken regarding unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Section 3 focuses on sick pay and sickness benefits. Section 4 discusses the special Covid-19 parental leave arrangements. The conclusions highlight the main trends in the measures taken during the first wave of the pandemic as well as their relevance for non-standard workers and the selfemployed.

This mapping report is the first deliverable of a larger study which the European Social Observatory is conducting on behalf of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)."

"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."

"The spread of Covid-19 and the ensuing adoption of lockdown measures have had severe consequences for European labour markets. All EU governments quickly made unprecedented economic and social support available to tackle the consequences of the pandemic. However, these measures – introduced by EU Member States during the pandemic as regards unemployment benefits, sickness benefits and special leave for parents – have not fundamentally improved formal access to social protection schemes for non-standard workers and the self-employed. Especially in the domain of unemployment benefits, temporary (sometimes one-off), mostly flat-rate and means-tested benefits have been introduced for these categories, thus falling short in structurally addressing important gaps in their social protection systems, which pre-date the Covid-19 pandemic. The present report discusses the measures targeted at non-standard workers and the self-employed in eight countries: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania and Sweden. These case studies confirm the emergency and non-structural character of the measures but also provide innovative country-specific examples. The pandemic has triggered debates on the situation of specific categories of workers and on the need to address gaps in their protection (e.g. workers in the platform economy). It has also highlighted the active role that trade unions have played during the crisis. Nevertheless their involvement in the decision-making process has clearly been uneven across countries and has been dependent on political will and on the state of social dialogue."