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25 06, 2024

Advancing the EU Child Guarantee in the Western Balkans: A Strategic Pillar of the Regional Growth Plan

2024-09-11T11:41:42+00:00 June 25th, 2024|News|

The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans, a regional network which gathers think tank organizations and social policy researchers, is urging the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the governments of the Western Balkans [...]

20 09, 2020

Online Promotion of the Policy Study “Social Protection in the Western Balkans – Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis”

2020-12-01T12:35:49+00:00 September 20th, 2020|News|

FES Dialogue SOE and Center for Social Policy are inviting you to online promotion of the policy study Social Protection in the Western Balkans – Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis starting on Wednesday 23rd of September at [...]

27 07, 2020

Regional study “Social Protection in the Western Balkans – Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis” Published

2020-08-20T10:38:49+00:00 July 27th, 2020|News|

Regional social policy experts of The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans network, with the support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, prepared the Regional study Social Protection in the Western Balkans – Responding to the [...]

14 01, 2020

A Bismarckian welfare state for the Western Balkans?

2020-07-27T13:49:38+00:00 January 14th, 2020|News|

By Paul Stubbs | Let us imagine that, after his retirement from active political life in 1890, Otto von Bismarck would have spent the last one hundred and thirty years lecturing and researching on social policy across the world. Most recently, he worked as an unpaid advisor for the advocacy network ‘The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans’...

7 11, 2019

Western Balkans Policy Analysis Laboratory on Welfare State Issues

2020-02-06T13:32:31+00:00 November 7th, 2019|News|

The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans Network organized the Western Balkans Policy Analysis Laboratory (PAL) on welfare state issues in Montenegro (Bečići) from 21 to 25 October 2019. The PAL was aimed [...]

21 12, 2018

High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress Publishes its Final Reports

2019-10-11T18:02:25+00:00 December 21st, 2018|News|

If we measure the wrong thing, we will do the wrong thing The High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (HLEG) chaired by Nobel Prize winning-economist Joseph E. [...]

5 06, 2018

“The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans” Regional Conference

2019-10-11T18:04:10+00:00 June 5th, 2018|News|

The regional conference “The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans” will be held in Belgrade, from 6 to 8 June 2018. Over 200 key stakeholders from the Western Balkans and EU [...]