so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional …, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure …

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 …

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 …

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

-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 …