Enlargement of the European Union to a further 10 countries in May 2004 will present huge challenges, particularly in the economic sphere. This report documents the industrial relations situation in all 10 acceding countries - Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,...

Temporary agency work is an important and rapidly expanding form of employment throughout the European Union. Its regulation continues to be a contentious issue, as the demands of employment creation and flexibility need to be balanced with employment protection and security for workers. This...

How do citizens perceive the dynamic relations and interdependencies between various aspects of quality of living and working conditions in a European Union of 25 Member States? According to this report on Working and living in an enlarged Europe, employees spend at least one third of their time...

Migration has become a significant economic and social policy issue in the European Union. This report provides a timely contribution to the debate on migration and mobility by presenting new data on the potential extent and shape of future migration from the acceding and candidate countries...

For Europeans, the entitlement to good health care is a basic human right, as enshrined in Article 33 of the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights: 'everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment'. The major long-term social...

In the light of future EU enlargement, the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) has started to expand its coverage of industrial relations developments to the candidate countries. From June 2002, EIRO has begun to report regularly on industrial relations events and issues in the...

The Lisbon Summit highlighted social policy as a core element in Europe's strategy for becoming 'the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with better jobs and greater social cohesion' by 2010. The present report, a joint...

Ten new Member States will join the European Union in May 2004 as part of the current phase of enlargement. The differing norms in both living and working conditions across the continent pose real challenges for Europe's policymakers. Working conditions in the acceding and candidate countries...

This report presents an overview of living conditions in the five current EU candidate countries - Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. It is based on the results of the 2016 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) and covers three broad areas: quality of life, quality of...