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Linking retirement to life expectancy 'saves welfare' - 22 October 2010 - News

As the French government reels from a series of strikes and protests over its plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a leading Brussels policy expert warns of more trouble ahead across Europe unless governments are frank with voters about the fundamental reforms required to grapple with the looming demographic crisis. 

Redistributing wealth across Brussels - 11 March 2009 - Analysis

"There [has been] a growing disparity between the highest and lowest incomes [in Brussels] since the end of the 1980s," argue Christian Kesteloot, a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Maarten Loopmans, a lecturer at the Erasmus University College Brussels, in a Brussels Studies e-journal.

A chance for a new foundation of the EU - 21 February 2007 - Analysis

In this ZEI discussion paper, Professor Ludger Kühnhardt puts forward the idea that the current crisis of the EU could be a real chance for a new foundation of the EU to make it more appealing to its citizens.

New Swedish leader promises privatisations - 18 September 2006 - News

Welfare reforms and privatisations, but no new euro referendum, form the agenda of new Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of the centre-right coalition which ousted the Social Democrats.  

Swedish elections to challenge Nordic Model? - 15 September 2006 - News

The centre-right alliance in Sweden has a slight lead over the ruling Social Democrat party in polls prior to elections on 17 September. The actual unemployment rate, welfare benefits and tax on labour are key issues.  

Strikes hit France, UK and Germany - 28 March 2006 - News

Three of the EU's leading economies will be hit by strikes on 28 March. Both in France and the UK the disruptions underline the difficulty in pushing through labour market reforms.   

Schröder may lose German State elections amid welfare protests - 03 September 2004 - News

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party is likely to suffer a defeat in the upcoming regional state elections amid anger over planned cuts to jobless benefits, polls show.

EU enlargement: external economic implications - 30 April 2003 - Analysis

This policy briefing discusses the main economic aspects of the external dimension, in particular whether there is a threat of trade diversion.

Mutual recognition, unemployment and the welfare state - 30 March 2003 - Analysis

This paper aims to explain the advantages of using the principle of mutual recognition, instead of equal treatement, in the Union's labour markets.

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