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WASHINGTON, Sep 12, 2006 (U.S. Newswire via COMTEX) -- Focusing its attention on the growing economic insecurity faced by American families, The Hamilton Project, an initiative at the Brookings Institution, [...]

The Green Paper on the modernisation of labour law, drafted by the European Commission and designed to launch a debate on the issue in May-June, will not now be published [...]

The European Commission has pencilled in the date of12 April to adopt its policy paper on social services of general interest (SSGI), i.e. a week after the revised draft Services [...]

In 2006, barely 0.3% of young people aged 16 to 19 were able to go abroad with support from European programmes. Based on this finding and encouraged by theCouncil, the [...]

As signalled in the previous issue of European Report, the European Commission adopted a Communication on October 15 on promoting the common values of the European Union. The paper does [...]

The European Parliament rejects the European Commission's proposal of a European code of conduct on communication and suggests instead that a Community programme of information and communication on Europe be [...]

Around 20% of Finns (and over 40% of 3-18 year olds) are members of non-profit making sports clubs - a situation that they wish to maintain if not improve on. [...]

aSittinga in plenary session on 15 March, the European Parliament voted by a large majority to adopt an own-initiative report by Slovakian Christian Democrat Edit Bauer (Hungarian Coalition Party) on [...]

Ms Gr?ner says that youth organisations are disappointed with the content of the White Paper, largely because the consultation process gave rise to unrealistic expectations. The rapporteur believes that the [...]

The White Paper on youth policy was adopted after a lengthy two-year period of consultation between the Commission, EU Member States, European youth organisations and young people themselves. The Commission [...]

A new action plan for growth. The Commission says that it plans to come forwards with a new Community Action Plan, provisionally called 'Lisbon jobs and growth Programme'. The executive [...]

Up to 50% of maintenance payments such as child support are not recovered and the problem is especially acute in cross-border cases, the European Commission has said, announcing publication of [...]

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Antonio Vitorino is due to present the Communication to the full team of Commissioners on October 15 and a discussion has been pencilled in. [...]

At their extraordinary Council meeting on September 20, 2001, EU Justice and Home Ministers urged the Commission to examine the relationship between internal security and international protection. Taking its cue [...]

The European Commission adopted a series of guidelines on October 15, in the form of an interpretative Communication, to clarify how social considerations can be integrated into public procurement procedures. [...]

Recommendation on mobility.The European Parliament's positive vote on May 15 enabled Ministers to give their final stamp of approval to the proposed Recommendation on mobility within the Community for students, [...]

Members of the Culture Committee are extremely keen that the Lisbon target of providing all schools in the EU with internet access by the end of 2001 should be reached [...]

Authorities close down a major reformist newspaper, the 'Hammihan', which was one of the few that had survived a hard-line crackdown on the media. (The crackdown, part of a backlash [...]

The article offers information on a surprising scene at Brandeis University, where police officers were seen wrestling a student to the ground during a combative crowd incident. Topics include the university's history of encouraging vigorous debate, the specific phrases banned by the administration to ensure communication free of menace and intimidation, and the broader context of the incident involving chants related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The article focuses on the significant policy shift by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party, turning the regressive U.S. Dollars 21 billion stage three tax cuts into a progressive economic and social policy. Topics include the impact on low-income earners, the contrast with the original Coalition-designed package, and the political dynamics surrounding the government's move.

The article focuses on the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme and its findings of dishonesty and government lapses in handling welfare payments. Topics include the Coalition's culture and attitude towards welfare recipients, the lack of full and frank advice from some public servants, and the unwillingness of Scott Morrison's government to listen to expert advice on important issues.

Suriman, a day laborer in Jakarta, is beaming from ear to ear. He points to three pages of official- looking paper stapled together with his name and age and a stamp certifying that he's just enrolled in Indonesia's new universal health care program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NIKOLAI KONDRATIEFF was not exactly a faceless bureaucrat in post-revolutionary Russia. He had held an important economic post in the last, short-lived government of Alexander Kerensky before the Bolsheviks took charge; then he founded an influential research organization, the Institute of Conjecture, and became an important theorist of the New Economic Policy under Lenin. But he would long ago have been consigned to the dustbin of history had it not been for his quirky academic passion, which he pursued in a series of books and papers through the 1920s. Reviewing economic history since the late 18th century, Kondratieff came to a startling, doomsday conclusion: that capitalist economies were fated to go through regular and predictable cycles of around 50 years, inevitably culminating in a depression. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the social and economic policy proposals of behavioral science and economics professor Richard H. Thaler and law and political science professor Cass R. Sunstein, both of the University of Chicago. Their idea of "libertarian paternalism," elaborated in their book "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness," is discussed. The policy implications of their research into how small alterations in people's environment can influence their behavior are explored.

The article discusses universities and colleges in Russia. The Russian government has attempted to revitalize the educational system by merging colleges with the intention of creating two premier federal research universities. The merge has been administrated by Vladislav Zakharevich, who is the head of Southern Federal University. The author details the strategies that Zakharevich has used to raise the nation's academic reputation, focusing on efforts to modernize professional education by integrating science and practice.

Presents an article on the experiences in writing the book "Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform." Complicating factors in the study of welfare reform; Primary message heard by women who arrived at Arbodale and Sunbelt City welfare offices; Best way of selling a book.

Europe's ageing population will be at the heart of the Polish Presidency's social priorities. In the absence of innovative proposals on social policy, the white paper on the adequacy and [...]

The European Commission officially presented, on 15 December, its green paper on the EU workforce for health, which was adopted on 11 December and covered in detail in Europolitics 3658. [...]

As a follow-up to its competition enquiry into retail banking, the European Commission launched a public consultation on 2 May with the publication of a green paper on retail financial [...]

In its opinion adopted on 15 March on the revised White Paper on the European transport policy, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) stresses the role that public transport [...]

Following the European Commission's publication of its Green Paper on modernising labour law (see Europolitics 3195), the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is satisfied that 'the Commission has resisted the [...]

EAPN Ireland, a member of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), has published a first paper on the issue of minimum social standards in Europe. The project, initiated by partners in [...]

The Federation of Belgian Businesses (Federation des entreprises de Belgique - FEB) published a White Paper on International Medical Services on 21 September. It aims, through this initiative, to demonstrate [...]

In an informal document ( non-paper') submitted to his counterparts in the EU Council of Ministers, Rudy Demotte, the Belgian Minister for Health and Social Affairs, supported the idea of [...]

Responding to the Commission's Green Paper 'Confronting demographic change: a new solidarity between the generations' MEPs sitting in plenary session on 23 March adopted the report by Philip Bushill-Matthews (EPP-ED, [...]

The construction industry would like to see more focus on professional illness and work accidents in the forthcoming Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (2006-2013). In a position paper [...]

Over-rigid. The experts will draft an 'options paper' in the coming weeks that will be submitted to EU ministers for consideration. Europol is currently regulated by a 1995 inter-governmental Convention [...]

Mr Barroso told MEPs that the paper was a response to fears about globalisation and oEuro-pessimismo. It was a owake-up callo to member states, he said. oWe have to modernise [...]

The paper, and the planned discussion at the seminar, is designed to prepare for the informal summit of EU leaders in Hampton Court on October 27-28 which will focus on [...]

Neelie Kroes confirmed that a new consultation paper on the future guidelines will be presented by the European Commission in the coming weeks. Although she promised more flexibility in relation [...]

The paper, which will be presented to the European Parliament on January 26 and to EU foreign ministers on January 31, says that despite the Union having made great strides [...]

The Commission's July 2001 White Paper on Governance - one of President Romano Prodi's flagship initiatives - set out a range of actions aimed at installing a culture of better [...]

Progress so far. Since the Prodi Commission came to office five years ago, a wide range of anti-discrimination legislation has been adopted. The Green Paper approved by the EU executive [...]

The Commission paper says the shortfall of effective regional integration constitutes a serious obstacle to Latin American development. Economic exclusion engenders political exclusion, it says. By endangering social justice, inequality [...]

Gender Equality Ombudsman. A position paper, submitted to the Irish Presidency and the EU Council by the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement (SAMAK), stresses: 'Both the [...]

Benchmarks in education and training The Council debated European benchmarks in education and training on the basis of a discussion paper prepared by the Greek Presidency, which is very keen [...]

A knowledge-based economy and society in Europe. This debate will be based on a discussion paper drawn up by the Greek Presidency, which focuses not only on the need for [...]

Review of the European Employment Strategy. The discussion paper notes that the EES is the fundamental tool for achieving the Lisbon targets and has so far contributed to falling unemployment, [...]