At the Spring Summit on 25th-26th March, one among the most controversial debates concerned the poverty and education parts of the strategy. While EU leaders confirmed social inclusion as one of the five headlines targets, the explicit reference to cutting poverty by 25% was dropped as several Member States insisted that further work is needed on appropriate indicators.
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Ensuring a smooth functioning of the new rules and provisions under the Lisbon treaty is among the priorities set in the political programme of the Spanish Presidency to the European Council, which is the first presidency to exercise its respective functions on the basis of the new legal text.
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José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, has finally presented yesterday, 3rd March, his proposals for the upcoming years in the framework of the 2020 Strategy.
Among the concrete objectives are an employment rise of 6% for the active population aged from 20 to 64, a reduction of the share of early school leavers from 15 to 10% and a reduction of the number of people living under the poverty line from 80 to 60 million people.
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You will remember the shock wave that the services directive, also known as the Bolkestein directive, caused throughout European civil society. Six years after its introduction, it seems that the earth is still shaking, at least for social services.
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Shaping policies?
The influence of civil society organisations has exploded in the last decade. The evolving concept of “governance” has pushed European institutions and national governments to acknowledge civil society as an important player.
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