Views: 269About 450 million young people globally lack the skills necessary for an AI-driven labor market; many are feeling unprepared for the modern workplace’s structures. In order to close the digital skills gap, the AI models and digital literacy process must be integrated into education policies as early as possible, alongside fostering other human-centered skills […]
Category: Labor market
Income and living conditions in Europe: recent data
Views: 359The EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) is aimed at collecting various components of the European states’ conditions, as well as providing timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal data comparison on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions. Besides, the issues of minimum wages are also vital…
Skills for the future: global and European transformations
Views: 257Technological changes, global politico-economic fragmentation, as well as world-wide social uncertainties in sustainability, climate mitigation and demographic shifts, coped with the energy and green transitions (in separate and in combination form) are presently among the major drivers that are going to shape and transform global and regional labor markets in the coming decades. Thus, […]
Designing the EU long-term budget: citizen’s participation
Views: 83The third and final session of the European Citizens’ Panel on the new EU long-term budget has just finished its work. For the first time, a group of 150 randomly selected citizens from all EU- 27 member states have brought forward their ideas in over thirty “general and guiding” recommendations for the formation of […]
Recent European Social Dialogue: the tripartite social summit
Views: 203After the adoption of a new Pact for a European Social Dialogue, the EU-wide social summit took place recently (19 March, 2025). The Tripartite Summit is a forum for dialogue between the EU institutions, the member states and the social partners; the summit’s main theme was “Bringing Europe back on track in a challenging […]
The EU and US in a trade war: sanctions and countermeasures
Views: 96This March, the US imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on imports of steel, aluminium and certain products containing steel and aluminium from the EU; in response, the Commission is launching a series of countermeasures to protect European businesses, workers and consumers from the impact of these unjustified trade restrictions.
EU efforts to support clean industrial development in the member states
Views: 72New Commission proposal aims to ensure that the member states can have the EU’s support to facilitate implementation of the EU-wide “clean industrial deal” without causing undue distortions of competition in the European single market. The Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework provides for some measures to integrate the EU-wide industrial development, competition as well […]
The future of European auto-industry: new discussions
Views: 94The second meeting of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry took place in the beginning of March 2025 in a “good, intense and productive discussion”, noted the Commission President. However, she added “it was clear now that it is time for action on a number of priorities”.
European CAP: recent comprehensive ago-policy analysis
Views: 162Eurobarometer publishes regularly surveys on the state-of-art of EU-wide agriculture: i.e. recent eighth edition was conducted last summer among over 26 thousand respondents from different social and demographic groups. Present survey provides a comprehensive overview of Europeans’ attitudes towards agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy, which takes about one-third of EU budget.
European social market economy: concept and development
Views: 534The European integration project is based –in part- on an attractive and ambitious idea of “uniting” the adherent member states along involvement in the so-called “social market economy” model. Among its most vital elements (mainly, in the social security system) are such issues as, e.g. occupational pension, universal health care and unemployment insurance. These […]