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Faced with the need to provide long-term support to Ukraine and upgrade its own defence, the EU is revisiting its financing arrangements for the Common Security and Defence component.

De Commissie is verantwoordelijk voor de uitvoering van de begroting, in samenwerking met de lidstaten, maar is onderworpen aan de politieke controle van het Europees Parlement.

This joint workshop gave members of the BUDG and CONT Committees an overview of global efforts to finance the fight against climate change and of the EU’s role in this context. Key findings were:  The EU’s contribution, both regulatory and financial, is consid-erable and exceeds its ‘fair share’;  However, a significant gap remains between actual commit-ments globally and the agreed funding level of USD 100 bil-lion per year;  Even more funding will have to be mobilised, including from private ...

The commissioner-designate, Nicolas Schmit, appeared before the European Parliament on 1 October 2019 to answer questions from MEPs in the Committees on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). During the hearing, he made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document.

An overview of key findings of the Study "The European Social Fund: Beneficiaries' experience in the Current Funding Period", produced by Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL).

This paper has been prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. It presents recent developments and challenges related to employment and unemployment; income inequality and poverty in Bulgaria, comparing them to the trends for the European Union. The paper also provides an overview and analysis of the most impactful policies designed and implemented to address the above, in view of the European Pillar of Social Rights and ...

Sinds de jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw besteedt de EU veel aandacht aan het verbeteren van de gezondheid en veiligheid op het werk. Met de invoering van wetgeving op Europees niveau zijn normen vastgelegd voor de minimale bescherming van werknemers. Dit belet de lidstaten echter niet om strengere maatregelen te handhaven of in te voeren. Toen het Handvest van de grondrechten van de Europese Unie wettelijk bindend werd met de inwerkingtreding van het Verdrag van Lissabon, werd het belang van ...

Het Europees Sociaal Fonds (ESF) is krachtens het Verdrag van Rome opgericht om de mobiliteit en werkgelegenheidsmogelijkheden van werknemers op de interne markt te verbeteren. De taken en werkingsregels van het ESF zijn daarna herzien om de ontwikkelingen in de economische en werkgelegenheidssituatie in de lidstaten evenals de ontwikkeling van de op EU-niveau vastgestelde politieke prioriteiten te weerspiegelen.

Key findings Based on earlier criticism of EMU policies, calls for complementing the European Semester exercise by a monitoring of social indicators, a ‘Social Triple A’ for Europe, were increasingly raised with the financial and economic crisis. Commission President Juncker made the issue into a central point of his policy agenda. In September 2015 he announced a ‘Pillar of Social Rights’, which should start with the euro area countries but remain open to others. The Commission proposal is ...