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A European Social Semester? The European Pillar of Social Rights in practice

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This working paper examines the European Pillar of Social Rights' practical use in the context of European ‘soft’ governance. It studies how the EPSR has been deployed in the 2018 European Semester and suggests some areas for reform in order to enhance its role in coordinating social policy.
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Economic ideology in the European semester

2022
This paper examines how the European Commission’s policy ideas have shifted over the course of the European Semester, the European Union’s annual cycle of economic governance and policy coordination that has been in place since 2011. In doing so, it seeks to add to our understanding of the divergent fiscal policy responses in many EU countries to the ...
Swinkels, Marij, Schoonvelde, Martijn
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The European Semester as a Policy Instrument in Education—The Cases of Spain and Sweden [PDF]

European Journal of Education
In this article we examine the European Semester as an innovative form of policy coordination, with distinct effects on education and skills policies for Member States. We analyse the Semester's framing of education policy, and examine its manifestations
Nafsika Alexiadou, Francesc Xavier Rambla Marigot   +1 more
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Flexicurity in the European semester

Journal of European Public Policy, 2017
Before the crisis, flexicurity was a leading European Union (EU) policy concept, which aimed to balance labor-market flexibility and security. The recent focus on austerity measures to reduce public deficits might be thought to have reduced attention to the ‘security’ component of flexicurity.
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Education policy and the European Semester:

2019
Education policy is a national competence within European Union rules, and therefore the responsibility of national governments. However, encouraging education policy co-ordination across Member States, and developing a European education ‘policy space’ has always been a feature of EU activity.
Howard Stevenson, Alison Milner, Emily Winchip, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan   +3 more
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Politics and Commodification: Rereading the European Semester

ILR Review
Part of a book review forum on Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from theFinancial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. By Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabo´, and Vincenzo Maccarrone. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2024. 434 pp. ISBN 9781316511633.
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A European Model — Semesters, Modules and Cats

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 1993
A European model: semesters, modules and CATs The University of Ulster has developed links with Bavarian Fachhohschulen in Augsburg and Kempten. New course formats, with similar semester periods have been adopted to facilitate arrangements for offering dual awards to students undertaking ERASMUS exchange ...
J. S. Godfrey, R. H. Mitchell, A. Eder, J. Steinbrunn   +3 more
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How effective and legitimate is the European semester? Increasing the role of the European Parliament [PDF]

, 2011
The European Semester is a new institutional process that provides EU member states with ex-ante guidance on fiscal and structural objectives. The Semester’s goals are ambitious and it is still uncertain how it will fit into the new EU economic governance framework. We find that member states are only slowly internalising the new procedure. Furthermore,
Benedicta Marzinotto, Guntram B. Wolff, Mark Hallerberg   +2 more
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Is the European Semester effective and useful?

2018
We study whether and to what extent EU countries implement recommendations on macroeconomic imbalances given by the EU in the so-called European Semester. We assess how recommendations have evolved since 2013, based on a new database. We also study how EU recommendations on addressing macroeconomic imbalances compare to recommendations given by the ...
Efstathiou, Konstantinos, Wolff, Guntram B.   +1 more
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A Design for an Operational Capacity of the European Semester

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Since 2011, the European Semester constitutes the main instrument for strengthening economic policy coordination between member states. Economic policy coordination is of particular importance in a monetary union deprived of a full-fledged fiscal union as a backstop for shock-smoothing capacity. Against this background, the European Semester -- despite
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