-depth look at the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals it sets for the EU, with the aim of shedding light on the question of …

pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached …, even from the point of view of EU citizens. Using an economic framework, it examines scenarios with different degrees of … policy harmonisation and integration among EU countries. Finally, it argues that there is an important role for enhanced …

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour … migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … with high levels of short term service mobility. Service mobility/posting is as much a phenomenon of intra‐EU15 mobility …

since self-employment is on the rise in many countries, particularly own-account self-employment. Drawing on EU-SILC data …