The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the accessibility of health, education and care services for all Europeans. This is also the case for children, who in several countries have seen their schools closed and replaced with remote learning. They have been affected too by the pandemi...
The role of comprehensive welfare states, which are one of the defining features of European societies, has been substantially challenged in recent decades by increased global economic competition and by a series of social trends such as demographic ageing, new family arrangements, technological...
The module European Country Profiles of the European Commission’s Raw Materials Information System (RMIS) provides country-specific data and indicators related to non-food, non-energy raw materials. These data and indicators are derived from data from official sources and well-established data p...
The attached Country Profiles sheets provide for all Member States a snapshot of progress towards the national 2020 poverty and social exclusion target, trends in the main social indicators for each country, and the main, priority social challenges and good social outcomes identified for each co...
The Protection Against Discrimination Act (PADA) 2004 is the main anti-discrimination law, enacted to transpose the directives.9 It is a single equality law universally banning discrimination on a range of grounds, including race/ethnicity, sex, religion/belief, sexual orientation, disability an...
The overall aim of this study is to assess how and to what extent Member States use EU funding to improve the situation of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion, in particular of those living in severe material deprivation. The study is based on desk research, interviews with stakehol...