Brussels plan for EU social policy
May 1st, 2003 BY KEITH NUTHALLA potentially significant step towards aligning social protection policies throughout the 15 member countries of the European Union has been proposed by the European Commission which claims that "without effective EU co-ordination of social protection reforms, we risk reforming too slowly, too ineffectually and too unfairly."Under a new Brussels plan, member states will integrate social protection into a "single framework and process using the open method of co-ordination by 2006." The proposal covers social inclusion and anti- poverty policies, ...
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