Special Issue 3 May 2019 The European (Social) Union is in need of a ‘Social Imbalances Procedure’ By Francesco Corti, Sebastiano Sabato and Bart Vanhercke The Social Imbalance Procedure would use the redefined indicators included in the Pillar’s Social Scoreboard, in accordance with the analysis provided in the annual Joint Employment Report. Countries displaying ‘critical situations’ in one or more of the five policy areas mentioned above would be encouraged by the European Commission to request the Social Imbalance Procedure.
Policy focus 7 May 2018 Social policy in the European Union: from high hopes to high yields By Bart Vanhercke and Sebastiano Sabato A roadmap for the implementation of the Pillar should be tabled by the European Commission in the near future. Debates such as a Framework Directive on minimum income schemes or the setting-up of a common unemployment scheme could be relaunched. Furthermore, the commitment to fight poverty and social exclusion should be restated and concretised through more effective actions.
