Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion

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Editorial: Continuity in change

Newsletter 2008-1

Publication date : 2008-07-01

The Peer Reviews will continue to provide a forum for Member States to present innovative policy measures designed to combat social exclusion and to strengthen social protection (especially pensions, health and long term care policy) for appraisal by their fellow EU partners or to discuss together important issues related to these policy areas that have recently come to the fore. Just as in the past, the planned series of reviews will give Member States the opportunity to learn from what others are doing. The process is designed not only to improve policies but to broaden public awareness of the issues involved and the action being taken to address them.

Equally, the network of independent experts will continue to produce impartial and objective assessments of Member State policies for tackling problems of social exclusion and of the specific measures proposed to assist those identified as being at risk in this respect. A recent focus has been on the interaction between policies implemented in the area of social protection and social inclusion and the goal of sustaining higher rates of economic growth in the EU and creating more jobs (the so-called “feeding in - feeding out” process - see page 3 below). This is likely to be a recurring theme in the future given the transformation of the social fabric against the background of an increasingly changing global outlook combined with the ongoing commitment of EU Member States to ensuring that all groups in society both gain from economic growth and are able to contribute to achieving it.

  • An international consortium of consultancy companies consisting of ÖSB Consulting in Vienna, CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg, the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) at the University of Sussex in Brighton and Applica in Brussels will assist the European Commission in carrying out the programme.