The Social Progress Watch (SPW) initiative is a tool implemented by members and partners of the NGO SOLIDAR to monitor the commitment and progress made by national governments towards a more social and cohesive Europe. In the latest Newsletter, four country reports are presented (from Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and Romania). The editors state that the ongoing social crisis in Europe has confronted the European institutions and national governments with the effects of their policy responses to the economic crisis. These policies have so far focused on one-sided austerity measures and thereby eroded the social safeguards offered by our respective welfare states and the European social model.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.