Thursday 4 February 2010

EU Social Agenda: policies, initiatives and sources

an article by Grace Hudson (Head of Library Services, University of Bradford) published in Aliss Quarterly Volume 5 Number 2 (January 2010)

The article is based on a presentation Grace made, the slides from which are at http://slideshare.net/heatherdawson/eu-social-agenda, which provides a really useful summary of the history of EU social policy agendas.

Reading through the article I was pleased to agree with the comment "The Europa website, though not an intuitive site to use, has a wealth of information giving the official perspective on EU social policy together with legislation and statistical data but this needs to be balanced by comment and analysis, and critical peer reviewed academic studies." The Europa site is one of those that you can quickly get lost in – assuming you ever get past the first page.

Some of the other sources mentioned are available only to academic institutions via the Athens login.


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