SOLIDAR Social Affairs Monthly Update March 2016

Social Affairs Forum Newsletter - March 2016

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SECRETARIAT UPDATES

Nominations for the Silver Rose Awards
Since the year 2000 SOLIDAR organises annually its Silver Rose Awards in the European Parliament in cooperation with the S&D Group, an occasion to celebrate Civil Society Organisations and individuals whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world. This year's edition will take place on the evening of Tuesday 14th June 2016.

Nominate your candidate here. Please note that the submission of candidates is possible till Monday 11^th April 2016.

Study visit in Pozzallo (Italy) – 13 May 2016
Our first study visit of the year will take place in Pozzallo (Italy) on 13 May 2016. The study visit is organised in cooperation with our Italian member ARCI and in conjunction with the 2nd edition of the Sabir Festival of Mediterranean cultures.

During the study visit ARCI will present us some of the projects implemented in the south of Italy to provide assistance to migrants in vulnerable situation and to promote integration and intercultural dialogue in the local communities. In addition, we will visit the harbor and the surroundings of the new hotspot where the reception operations take place and we will have the opportunity to receive feedbacks from NGOs on the functioning of the hotspot and practical consequences of this new approach.

Please contact Elsa for more information.
Online registration can be found here.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

Briefing paper “Social Safeguards in Europe - Redefining our narrative”
This paper aims at setting out the range and level of social safeguards SOLIDAR members consider essential to provide for a high level of social protection in the European Union.

SOLIDAR Statement “European Pillar of Social Rights - We need strong social safeguards in Europe to redefine our narrative”
8 March 2016), the European Commission presented its communication on a public consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights which is accompanied by an outline of the Pillar as well as two staff working documents: one on key economic, labour market and societal trends and one on the EU social acquis. The process of building the Pillar is part of the ongoing “Deepening the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)” and foresees a final proposal for the Pillar early in 2017.
Read the statement here.

Social Progress Watch Report 2015
Two years after the launch of our tool for monitoring social progress at national level, SOLIDAR’s Social Progress Watch shows consistently the drastic impact of one-sided policy reforms focused on budget discipline and fiscal consolidation at national and regional level. Not only have Greece, Portugal and other Troika-ridden countries reached the limit of what is left of their social welfare states, economically prosperous countries also report deteriorating conditions for workers, the unemployed, youth and other groups.

Here you can find the 14 country reports developed by national strategy groups led by SOLIDAR members and partners: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom and the General Report for 2015.

All publications are available in our Online Knowledge Hub!

OUR EVENTS

The beginning of April we've organised a roundtable discussion on 'Labour Mobility and Citizenship: Safeguarding Social Standards in Europe' together with the Multicultural Centre Prague and the Social Affairs Forum in Brussels. The reports and outcomes of both activities will be shared with you in the next monthly update.

POLICY UPDATES

We would like to inform you that the SOLIDAR secretariat is currently feeding into the following legislative and non-legislative processes in the European Parliament, mainly in cooperation with the Greens and the Social Democrats.

Our contributions are based on your inputs to the Social Progress Watch 2015.

New EC Trade Strategy, Report in the Trade Committee, Opinion in EMPL
Social Dumping, Report in EMPL
Refugees: labour market and social integration, Own-initiative report in EMPL
Posted Workers Directive - targeted review

LATEST ARTICLES

OTHER EVENTS

FEAD Platform Launch Conference, 2-3 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium
SOLIDAR Silver Rose Awards, 14 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium. More information and online nomination form can be found here.
SOLIDAR Annual General Assembly, 15 June 2016, Brussels

NEXT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS FORUM

SOLIDAR-ARCI study visit in Pozzallo, Italy, 13 May 2016
SOLIDAR Training Academy in Turin, Italy, 6-8 July 2016

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