This policy brief examines child poverty trends and the expansion of social protection programs in Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It concludes with recommendations for strengthening these interventions to effectively address child poverty, especially in times of crisis.

This policy brief presents key findings of the mutual learning activities implemented by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research together with its Bridge Building (BB) countries for the period 2021-2024 and shares insights on participants’ lessons learnt. It also includes a reflection on the methodological challenges faced by the European Centre as facilitator of the activities and results of the project evaluation. 

The aim of this policy brief is to present the main challenges that sending construction companies may face in accessing information when providing services under the posting of workers regime, and the good practices that information providers have adopted to overcome these difficulties.

In this INFO-POW policy brief, we ask the following questions: What are common information gaps in posting, why do they matter, and how to address them? We present original cross-national data which maps extant information channels on posting from five countries: Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

This policy brief focuses on the categorisation of tax and benefit family policies introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic in five EU countries, based on data sourced from the Eurofound Policy Database and EUROMOD 2018-21 reports.