AEIP adopted its position paper on the European Care Strategy and Long-Term Care (LTC) in view of the upcoming developments at the level of the European Parliament. In its position, AEIP stresses its support for the European Commission’s commitment in ensuring timely access to good quality and affordable healthcare to European citizens at all life stages. We stress the added value of the involvement of European paritarian institutions of social protection to support EU citizens in the process of finding high-quality care and ensuring work-life balance for carers both at the EU and national level. The paper calls the European ...

AEIP’s Annual Conference for 2022 aims to bring together a wide range of experts from different policy fields, in order to discuss the crucial role of paritarian institutions of social protection in the transformation of the welfare models of the 21st century, which the European institutions are now addressing through important policy initiatives. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the traditional welfare state models in Europe have been well under pressure to adapt to multiple new challenges stemming from long-term developments as the demographic trends in Europe and changing labour markets. The outbreak of the pandemic accelerated developments in some of ...

AEIP is delighted to join the 2022 World Pensions Forum & ESG Summit in Paris, 6 & 7 July 2022, a global event organised by the World Pensions Council (WPC) and G7 Pensions Dialogue (G7 P7). This conference, held on the heels of the 48th meeting of the Group of Seven, will bring together the institutional asset owners, board members and policy thinkers who pioneered notions such as SDG-driven investment, climate finance, infrastructure as a ‘new asset class’ and employee capitalism. The conference will also feature a special presentation on ‘Sustainability & The EU Social Taxonomy’, by Aleksandra Kaydzhiyska, Executive ...

The group of stakeholders behind the initiative jointly promote the two main goals of European Retirement Week: raising awareness of the pension challenge, and serving as a platform for stakeholders and policymakers to discuss possible solutions to ensure that people in Europe can count on adequate and sustainable pensions, today and tomorrow. Demographic changes, combined with rising poverty rates among older persons, heightened environmental risks, and budgetary constraints, are placing severe pressures on pension systems. European Retirement Week was launched amid and in response to this context as a forum for interested parties to share ideas and best practices. The ...

Position: Policy Advisor on Pension & Financial Affairs Policy Field: Pension Policy, Financial Affairs, Social Protection Job Experience: Previous experience with EU Affairs, EU decision making & prior knowledge on EU level pensions & financial policy legislative framework will be a plus Job Location: Brussels, Full time Application Deadline: 19th June 2022 Start of Position: to be negotiated, indicatively around 1st September 2022 The Policy Advisor will be responsible for the coordination of the AEIP working group on Pension & Financial Affairs, which consists of European paritarian occupational pension funds, coordinated retirement schemes as well as paritarian insurers operating under the ...

AEIP is proud to present the overview of its activities carried out throughout 2021. We sincerely thank all AEIP members, partners and supporters for the work carried out in 2021, and we are confident that 2022 will also bring new exciting opportunities and cooperations. You can read the full AEIP Activity Report for 2021 here ...

The 13th edition of the World Pension Alliance & Transatlantic Conference will take place on June 7 & 8, 16h00 – 19h00 CEST The 13th edition of the Conference is organized by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) & the World Pension Alliance and the Transatlantic partnership. The Transatlantic partners consist of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP), US National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP), the Multi-employer Benefit Plan Council of Canada (MEBCO). AIST has the pleasure of hosting the 2022 World Pension Alliance & Transatlantic Conference as an online event in the afternoons of 7th June ...

On 29 March 2022, AEIP published its input to the European Commission’s call for evidence on the European care strategy accompanied by a proposal for a Council Recommendation on Long-term care and on the revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care. AEIP strongly supports the European Commission’s (EC) goals for the EU Care Strategy and it believes that this is an opportunity to foster the provision of long-term care (LTC) and informal care. AEIP calls the EC to promote the paritarian model across the EU as basis for sustainable and inclusive social protection. Paritarian institutions can ...

On 6th April AEIP participated in the Social Dialogue on the High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU. We appreciated the chance to present some preliminary points to DG EMPL and the Chair of the HLEG – Ms Anna Diamantopoulou: Paritarian institutions are a key component of a well-structured reflection and democratically driven transformation of the EU welfare states. They can strengthen and promote their role as a legitimate mediator between institutions and citizens in the generalized debate for the redesigning of social protection systems. Paritarian institutions are also able to ...

On 23 February 2022, AEIP published its input to the European Commission Guidelines on the application of EU competition law to collective agreements regarding the working conditions of solo self-employed persons. The draft Guidelines aim to make sure that EU competition law does not stand in the way of certain solo self-employed people's efforts to improve collectively their working conditions. They are part of the set of measures to improve the working conditions in platform work and to ensure that people working through digital labour platforms can enjoy social rights and benefits. In its response, AEIP highlights that the EU ...