by Maria Smirnova | Jun 16, 2016 | Health Inequalities, Healthy Economic Policy Campaign
The European Pillar of Social Rights, launched by the European Commission in March this year is an effort to achieve a European ’Triple A’ rating in employment and social affairs, in response to the backlash against austerity measures imposed across Europe. The final...
by Maria Smirnova | Jun 15, 2016 | Healthy Economic Policy Campaign
2015 is the first year in which the European Commission has issued Country Reports in this form, but they are not an entirely new component of the European Semester. The Reports provide an overview of the economic situation of each member state, along with its...
by Maria Smirnova | Jun 2, 2016 | Healthy Economic Policy Campaign
On 13 May 2015 the European Commission published the fifth edition of its country specific recommendations (CSRs), the centrepiece of the European Semester framework. The CSRs are a set of recommendations made to each member state (with the exception of those which...
by Maria Smirnova | Jun 2, 2016 | Healthy Economic Policy Campaign
2014 Country Specific RecommendationsExperts are already warning that over-reliance on cost-cutting is dangerous and questioning the power and impact of such recommendations, particularly for countries outside of the Euro area, which tend not to receive CSRs on...
