Europe
COFACE’s mission is to contribute to better policy making at EU level to make a positive change in the lives of the millions of families living in Europe. To this end, our advocacy is organised in three areas of action:
Mainstreaming: Providing a voice for families in the EU political arena to mainstream the family perspective as far as possible. EU politics cannot disregard this fundamental part of the nature of being human.
Linking up: We strive to strengthen EU social and employment policies, ensuring links between local grassroots organisations, national family policies, and EU realities. We also facilitate links across EU countries, driving innovation through transnational exchanges.
Monitoring: We monitor the positive and negative impacts of EU policies and legislation beyond the social/family policy fields (see other policy fields on the website)
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3 December 2018, International Day of Persons with Disabilities Persons with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, representing 10% of the total population of our planet and 80 million people in the EU, and this number will increase…
On the occasion of the first anniversary since the proclamation of the European Pillar of social rights, Social Platform in cooperation with the Portuguese Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security invite EU, national and local decision makers to Lisbon…
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On 15th November, the European Parliament adopted a report on care services for improved gender equality. The report notes that “the gender employment gap widens substantially once families have children, which reflects the difficulties that women face in reconciling child-raising…
The Annual Report of the Social Protection Committee (SPC) and the European Semester Autumn Package, including the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) and the Draft Joint Employment Report have been published in the last few days, giving a picture of the…
COFACE Families Europe launched a discussion in October 2018 at its Graz conference “Building sustainable and future-proof education systems: How can families contribute to a paradigm shift?” by exploring education in a holistic way and bringing the family perspective to…
On 6 November COFACE Families Europe joined the European Parliament roundtable discussion hosted by the European Alliance for Investing in Children (of which COFACE is member) and MEP Maria Joao Rodrigues, on the role of the next EU budget in…
The European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee are launching the call for expressions of interest to participate to the 5th meeting of the European Migration Forum, which will take place on 3-4 April 2019. The European Migration…
The Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) has issued a new Call for Proposals 2019 regarding the Erasmus+ Programme. As usual, this call for proposals covers a lot of actions, still divided into 3 key actions: Learning…
EU Legislation Together with 13 European and international organisations on 5th November (day before a key trilogue), we issued a public statement highlighting our ambitions and red lines on the EU work-life balance directive. The negotiations between Parliament and Council…
In half a year, European citizens will be called to vote for a new European Parliament and give an indication on whether they are satisfied with the current leadership or wish to change it. Leaders and parties will be judged…
“Economics is too important to be left to economists.” This statement encapsulates the rationale behind our seminar. Indeed, it would seem that economic considerations and arguments carry more weight than any other when it comes to move the dial in…
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