Resources & Publications

Social Policy

• INSSP Report: Impact of EU legislation on social services (June 2010)
• #5 Social Services of General Interest (Sept 2009)
• Commissing from the Third Sector in the EU - Conference Report from TSEN/CSV/SOLIDAR seminar (Dec 2008)
• 2nd Forum on Social Services of General Interest - Presentation (Oct 2008)
• SOLIDAR's comments on the draft Patients' Rights Directive (Sept 2008) 
• NGO Social Service Providers facing the Challenges of the Future
• A Guide to Good Practice for non-discriminatory access to services provided by NGOs

• #6 A Fair Go for All: Social Inclusion for Social Cohesion (Sept 2009)
• SOLIDAR's contribution to the Commission's consultation on Active Inclusion (Feb 2008) 

• #48 Recruitment agencies and their impact on working conditions (Romania)
• #47 Combating discrimiation against migrant workers (Italy)
• #46 Protecting low wage workers (The Netherlands)
• #45 Making industrial relations work for the working poor (Italy)
• #44 Youth unemployment and the decent work deficit (Lithuania)  
• #43 Young workers and the quest for decent work (Estonia)
• #42 Being young and precarious in Denmark 
• Event report #8: Achieving Decent Work and Quality Jobs through effective Industrial Relations
• #27: Annual Growth Survey 2011: SOLIDAR Recommendations for a more social strategy to tackle the crisis (March 2011)
• #22 Precarious Labour - EU-level policy initiatives on the promotion of decent work (Dec 2010)
• #20 Undocumented migrants: equal access to labour and social rights? (Sweden) (July 2010)
• #19 The changing labour market in Germany in times of crisis (Germany) (July 2010)
• #18 Private welfare: challenges to decent work for migrant care workers (Italy) (July 2010)
• #23 Non-standard employment relations or the erosion of workers' rights (May 2010)
• #21 Precarious labour - legal and policy frameworks at EU level (May 2010)
• Social dialogue: a tool to promote and defend decent work and quality jobs in Europe (May 2010)
• #17 Building decent jobs for migrant workers (Italy) (March 2010)
• #16 Building decent jobs for posted workers from non-EU countries (Romania) | Romanian (March 2010)
• #15 Youth unemployment in a time of crisis (Lithuania) (March 2010)
• #14 Employment Contracts Act: is flexicurity doing its job? (Estonia) (March 2010)
• #8 Decent Work in Europe: Key in the Integration of Migrants (Sept 2009)
• #7 Co-development as an Integration Tool (Sept 2009)
• SOLIDAR Event Report #1: Investing in people - the Importance of Social Infrastructures (Nov 2009)
• Together for Social Europe Declaration (May 2009) 
• SOLIDAR's contribution to the European Commission consultation on Financial Inclusion (Apr 2009)
• SOLIDAR's positions on the Open Method of Coordination (Feb 2009)
• Conference report from FIC/SOLIDAR seminar on Flexicurity (Feb 2009)
• SOLIDAR's contribution to Socially-Responsible Public Procurement Guide (Jan 2009)
• SOLIDAR's position on Flexicurity (Oct 2008)
• Challenges to collective agreements in the EU (Oct 2008)
• Resolution on Social Europe in English | French | German | Italian and Background Paper from Social Europe Conference (June 2008)
• SOLIDAR's contribution to Europe's social reality stocktaking exercise (Feb 2008) 
• "STRONG, SOCIAL, JUST - A social Europe is possible" - SOLIDAR Statement to heads of state and government on the occasion of the Spring European Council, March 2007
• Report in English | German from SOS Europe Conference 1-2 March 2007 in Berlin
• Background paper to SOS Europe Conference 2-3 February 2006 in Vienna

• SOLIDAR recommendations on Volunteering and the European Year 2011 on Volunteering (Dec 2010)
• #9 The Joy of Giving: How Volunteering Contributes to Social Cohesion (Sept 2009)

• Report: Making the System Work - Ensuring Decent Work and Quality Jobs in the Western Balkans (Feb 2012)
• #25 Promoting Decent Work and Quality Jobs in the Western Balkans (Nov 2010)
• #24 A new direction for Europe in the Western Balkans (March 2010)

• Civil Society Day Manifesto in EN | FR
• "Ensuring Decent Work for a Decent Life for All – The Challenge for Labour Law in the 21^st Century" - SOLIDAR response to the European Commission Green Paper 'Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century' (2007)
• The Services Directive and Beyond…The future of social, educational and health care services in the EU internal market" (2007)

SSGI

• 1st Forum on SSGI - Report (Oct 2007)
• SOLIDAR letter to President Barroso on the European framework for Social Services