Social protection
From a worldwide perspective, the European Union (EU) is clearly a model of social protection. Unemployment, poor health, invalidity, family situations and old age are some of the risks which these systems were created to deal with. The systems also guarantee access to several services that are vital to the preservation of human dignity. Although the Member States are responsible for organising and funding social protection systems, the EU has a special role to play by introducing legislation which coordinates the national social security systems, particularly with regard to mobility within the Community. The EU recently committed itself to promoting closer cooperation between the Member States in modernising their social protection systems, which face similar challenges throughout the EU.
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COORDINATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS
- Cross-border healthcare: patients’ rights
- Community programme for employment and solidarity - PROGRESS (2007-2013)
- European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF)
- Coordination of social security systems
- Social security schemes and free movement of persons: Basic RegulationArchives
- Social security schemes and freedom of movement of persons: implementing rulesArchives
- European health insurance card
- Combating social security fraud and undeclared work (Code of conduct)
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SUPPLEMENTARY PENSION SCHEMES
- Safe and sustainable pensions: supporting national strategies through a European approach
- The Future Evolution of Social Protection from a Long-Term Point of View: Safe and Sustainable Pensions
- Institutions for occupational retirement provision
- Tackling tax obstacles to the cross-border provision of occupational pensions
- Workers' mobility: facilitating the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rightsArchives
- Safeguarding supplementary pension rights
- Pensions Committee
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MODERNISING SOCIAL PROTECTION
- Reinforcing the Open Method of Coordination for social protection and social inclusion
- Strengthening of maritime labour standards
- Reassessing the regulatory social framework for more and better seafaring jobs in the EU
- Towards common principles of flexicurity
- Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008
- Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion: 2007
- Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006
- Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion
- Development of high-quality, accessible and sustainable health care and long-term care
- A comprehensive approach contributing to making work pay
- Streamlining open coordination in the field of social protection
- A concerted strategy for modernising social protection
- European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
- MISSOC - Mutual information system on social protection
- Social Protection Committee
- A new framework for the open coordination of social protection and inclusion policiesArchives
See also
European Commission, EU Social Security Coordination.