Europe

Report on inequalities in access to healthcare across the EU released

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Europa (13.11.2018) The study, which includes country reports and a synthesis report, provides an overview of inequality in access to healthcare in 35 European countries - EU Member States as well as EFTA and enlarging countries - showing that important inequalities persist, both between and within countries.

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Europe
Global challenges
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Reversing Pension Privatizations. Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America

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From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries privatized fully or partially their public mandatory pensions; as of 2018, eighteen countries have reversed the privatization.

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latin america
Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Pensions
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[Report] ILO: Reversing pension privatization: Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern European and Latin American countries (2000-18)

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ILO (31.10.2018) From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries privatized fully or partially their public mandatory pensions; as of 2018, eighteen countries have reversed the privatization.

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latin america
Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Pensions
Extension of coverage
Investment
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ILO: The future of work: What does the digital future hold for Serbia?

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ILO (05.11.2018) Organized with ILO assistance, the first annual conference following up on the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans examined opportunities of a knowledge-based economy in Serbia.

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Europe
serbia
Global challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Economic impact
Labour market
Digital Economy Observatory : Only Tags
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Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work

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Eurofound (24.09.2018) Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing. The types of work offered through platforms are ever-increasing, as are the challenges for existing regulatory frameworks. This report explores the working and employment conditions of three of the most common types of platform work in Europe.

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Europe
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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Conclusions of the Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas after the Tallinn Digital Summit | EU2017.EE

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Conclusions of the Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas after the Tallinn Digital Summit

INSIGHTS 06/10/2017 12:29 #eu2017ee #TallinnDigitalSummit

Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas has published conclusions from the Tallinn Digital Summit, which are going to be discussed by the European Union leaders at the next European Council taking place on 19-20 October in Brussels.

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Europe
european union
Global challenges
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Trust Services and Electronic identification (eID) | Digital Single Market (EU)

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The Regulation (EU) N°910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS Regulation) adopted by the co-legislators on 23 July 2014 is a milestone to provide a predictable regulatory environment to enable secure and seamless electronic interactions between businesses, citizens and public authorities.

Electronic identification (eID) and electronic Trust Services (eTS) are key enablers for secure cross-border electronic transactions and central building blocks of the Digital Single Market.

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Europe
european union
Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Security
Service quality
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[Policy Brief] WHO/Europe: Ensuring access to medicines: How to stimulate innovation to meet patients' needs?

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euro.who.(October 2018) This policy brief is one of a series on addressing market and policy failures in the pharmaceutical sector that was prepared for the Austrian EU Presidency. It aims to inform discussions about stimulating more meaningful productivity in terms of R&D. More specifically, it explores how R&D efforts can be steered to areas of unmet clinical needs and how efficiency in the R&D process can be increased. It also explicitly considers concrete options for strength

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Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Health promotion
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