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| Title: | Joint report on social inclusion social employment and social affairs social security and social inclusion |
| Authors: | European Commission Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs |
| Publisher: | European Commission |
| Issue date: | 2004 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/83056 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | The Lisbon European Council of March 2000 asked Member States and the Commission to
take steps to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty by 2010. It also agreed that
Member States should co-ordinate their policies for combating poverty and social exclusion
on the basis of an open method of co-ordination combining common objectives, national
action plans, common indicators with the aim of promoting more ambitious and effective
policy strategies for social inclusion. In this context Member States have prepared a second
generation of National Action Plans against poverty and social exclusion (NAPs Inclusion).
These constitute a strong political acknowledgement, three years after the Lisbon Summit, of
the continuing challenge to ensure social inclusion across the European Union. They represent
a renewed commitment to the Union's social goals and a reiteration by Member States that
modernisation of the economy should go hand in hand with efforts to reduce poverty and fight
against exclusion. They underline that this should be the case even at a time of economic
constraints and difficulties.
The NAPs inclusion are an important contribution to the modernisation of the European social
model. In this approach, relatively high levels of investment in policies to promote social
inclusion and social cohesion are recognised as also making an important contribution to
achieving sustainable economic and employment growth. This view is reinforced by the fact
that the most socially progressive countries within the Union are also among the most
economically advanced. However, in pursuing economic growth, it is clear from the
NAPs/inclusion that those countries starting from a lower level of development are also
giving priority to social development and recognise this as an integral part of achieving
economic as well as social progress. Thus it is clear that relatively high levels of social
investment are making and will continue to make a significant contribution to the
achievement of the Union's overall strategic goal of becoming, by 2010, "the most
competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable
economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion". This emphasises the
mutually reinforcing role of social, employment and economic policies, the importance of
which is highlighted by the Lisbon Strategy. |
| Keywords: | SOCIAL EXCLUSION
SOCIAL POLICY
EUROPEAN UNION |
| ISBN: | 9289479892 |
| Appears in collections: | Publications
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