ELNEP
About ELNEP
The ELNEP was founded in autumn 2006 to provide a counterweight to mainstream policy advice in Europe. The participating institutes identified a worrying lack of diversity in the European economic policy debate, which is biased heavily towards the supply side, exhibits a knee-jerk preference for ‘market’ solutions over social institutions, and draws conclusions from the micro for the macro level and from national for European policies.
The analytical and forecasting activities of the ELNEP put greater emphasis on macro policies and consider both demand and supply side measures to be crucial in supporting growth and employment. The network pays particular attention to issues of the labour market, employment, wages and income distribution, and wherever appropriate takes a European, rather than national, perspective: policies that may work in a single country may be counterproductive at European level.
The members of the network are financially and intellectually independent. At the same time they have institutional links to national labour movements, providing additional insights in the area of pay developments. The regional diversity of the network ensures in-depth expertise at country level. Currently the ELNEP comprises nine institutes.
- AGORA (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Arbeiterkammer Wien (AK, Vienna, Austria)
- Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety (ETUI-REHS, Brussels, Belgium)
- Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES, Paris, France)
- Labour Institute for Economic Research (LIER, Helsinki, Finland)
- Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK, Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Fundación Sindical de Estudios (FSE, Madrid, Spain)
- Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB, Rome, Italy)
The Financial Times publishes Andrew Watt's article entitled: "Rising Wages are the least of Europe's worries" 13/05/2008
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Latest ELNEP news
The European Labour Network for Economic Policy (ELNEP) released its spring forecast on 8th May: read more
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The economic and financial crisis: promoting a labour-friendly policy response
The current economic and financial crisis is having important consequences for citizens and workers across Europe. To address the many challenges from the regulation of the financial market to the new vision of a fair and sustainable society, ETUI has developed and published various analyses and organised a series of events having a short, medium and long term perspective. The aim is to foster debates on the causes, consequences and possible solutions to the crisis. This web page gathers the most relevant initiatives.
read moreEvents:
- 28 April - Book Launch - Understanding Financial System Reform - What Next?
- 4-5 May- TURI conference - The implications of the crisis for the labour market
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