Social Rights Monitor 2020 – European Trends
November 30, 2020
SOLIDAR and Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) publish the European Trends of the Social Rights Monitor 2020. This document was discussed during the celebration of the annual conference “Joining Forces for a socially sustainable post-Covid Europe”.
The second edition of this flagship publication complements the European Semester’s indicators with insights on the state of social rights and civic space across 17 countries in Europe, based on observations from civil society as well as official statistics. The European trends, the first paper in a series of 18 reports in total, compiles data from all 17 countries to give an overview at European level.
The 2020 edition of Social Rights Monitor reports on 14 European Union members – Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and the Netherlands; two candidate countries – Serbia and North Macedonia; and one member that left the EU in 2020, the United Kingdom. In each of those countries, a SOLIDAR member or partner set up a National Strategy Group. These groups pool the expertise of civil society organisations, academics and experts to assess the State of social Europe from the ground, in terms of equality of opportunities, fair working conditions, social protection, inclusion and civic space.
The 2020 Monitor combines their findings with quantitative and qualitative research and analyses to what extent these aspects are reflected in the Country Specific Recommendations of the European Semester. As the Semester process was merged with the Recovery and Resilience Plans, it is of outmost importance that the Recommendations include perspectives on social rights, in order to guide Member States towards a socially sustainable recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
Download the full publication, the 17 country reports and available translations below.
SRM2020 – European Trends ENGLISH
SRM2020 – European Trends BULGARIAN
SRM2020 – European Trends CROATIAN
SRM2020 – European Trends CZECH
SRM2020 – European Trends DANISH
SRM2020 – European Trends FRENCH
SRM2020 – European Trends GERMAN
SRM2020 – European Trends GREEK
SRM2020 – European Trends ITALIAN
SRM2020 – European Trends MACEDONIAN
SRM2020 – European Trends SERBIAN
