Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …

Household over-indebtedness is among the causes of the current financial crisis. In turn, the crisis exacerbated both … public and private debt problems. In this paper, household over-indebtedness is broadly defined as the situation where a … household cannot comply with payment requirements – whether it be mortgage, utility or consumer credit payments – on a …

revision of the Eurodac Regulation on children. The European Commission has proposed revising the Eurodac Regulation to expand … also be kept for longer (five years) and the age for capturing data from children would be lowered from 14 to 6. …

This opinion analyses the effects on children of the proposed recast Dublin Regulation. It covers child-specific rules … as well as provisions relating to all asylum applicants that significantly affect children. Where possible, the opinion … points to the potential practical effects on children of the envisaged changes to the Dublin system, drawing on the results …