Health promotion and disease prevention: Towards sustainable economic and social growth   AEIP Reflection Paper February 2014 Health is at the core of social protection and it represents almost a third of social policy budgets across EU countries. However, the current economic crisis requires countries to undertake budgetary measures, leading to cuts in health spending. Indeed, in Europe many Member States consolidate government budget balances across the EU[1]. Studies show that in OECD countries, health spending per capita increased by 5% a year during a period 2000-2009 but then started to decrease reaching zero growth in 2010 as countries started ...

European pensions-tracking service must add value 'without legislation' A European pension tracking system must be low-cost and offer sufficient “added value” to entice providers to join rather than rely on statutory underpinning, the European Commission has been told. Compiled by the TTYPE project – short for Track and Trace your Pension in Europe – the report concluded that a not-for-profit entity partially funded by the Commission should be launched to coordinate a European tracking system (ETS), which would build on existing tracking services put in place by member states. The report comes two years after the Commission asked the Finnish ...