Covid-19: EU measures/Potential support and obstacles for the social and solidarity economy
In the current Covid-19 context, the European Commission has tabled a number of proposals to adapt EU legislation in order to rapidly make (financial) support and assistance available to all Member States. In this context, the European Commission decided, for instance, to loosen state aid rules and set up a State Aid Temporary Framework. The Coronavirus Response…
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Children’s Rights: Covid-19 does not stop us. Together with kids and families even now. On line
While the home visits, which together with other community meetings (parishes, kindergartens, and in our centre the Pomegranate “Times for families”) have led us to reach about 150 families throughout the city, are temporarily suspended due to the Coronavirus emergency, the activities of cognitive and educational support to children and their families are continuing. From…
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TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTING THE EUROPEAN PILLAR OF SOCIAL RIGHTS: WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MASTER PARENTING IN WORK AND LIFE
Despite a number of recent (policy) initiatives at European level and in EU Member States, parents – and in particular mothers – still face a number of difficulties in combining (access to) work and family life. Moreover, the general employment rate of women is still considerably lower than that of men (by 11,6% in 2018). …
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European Parliament: Social Economy Intergroup re-launched!
On Tuesday 21st January 2020, the first internal meeting of the renewed Social Economy Intergroup (SEIG) took place at the European Parliament in Brussels to appoint the co-Chairs and vice-Chairs of the Intergroup and to draw up a strategy for the next five years. Five Members of the European Parliament were appointed as Co-Chairs of…
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The urban regeneration project “CAPACITY” in the words of beneficiaries
The project Capacity seeks to give inhabitants of three disadvantaged areas of Messina, in particular those living in the barrack settlements, the opportunity to become (again) protagonists of their own life. After two years and a half, the first new sustainable settlements are ready, and families are moving out of the shantytown, which means out…
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