Inactivity among young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) is rarely a single-factor issue, but is driven by a variety of personal and socio-economic characteristics. This is all too clear in the case of Bulgaria – a country where the labour market and educational institution...
This report investigates alternatives to the current targets related to early childhood education and care (ECEC), in particular by looking at socio-economic differences in the level of ECEC attendance in EU Member States. Using data from the EU Survey on income and living conditions (EU-SILC), ...
Before the COVID-19 outbreak put Europe and the world under unprecedented public health, economic and social stress, 2020 had started with continuing positive trends in the EU. Despite the deceleration of economic growth relative to 2018, throughout 2019, the EU had the highest employment in his...
In the wake of the economic crisis, European leaders and policymakers have recognised that economic and social convergence must go hand in hand if the goals of economic and monetary union are to be achieved. This policy brief provides an updated picture of convergence in employment outcomes acro...
‘In the medium term, the convergence process towards more resilient economic structures… should become more binding. This would be achieved by agreeing on a set of common high-level standards that would be defined in EU legislation, as sovereignty over policies of common concern would be shared ...
