The Joint Employment Report Ignores #TheOtherEurope
Last week, on 15th March 2018, the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) adopted the Joint Employment Report 2018 (JER). The JER is part of the European employment strategy and European Semester process. FEANTSA challenges the social situation as depicted by this report for being truly incomplete. The narrow social situation assessment presented by the JER fails to reflect the reality of #TheOtherEurope, a Europe not merely ignored but also misunderstood; not just despised but also forgotten. FEANTSA particularly notes the absence of any reference to homelessness and the lack of precision in representing the reality of the housing urgency for the poorest in Europe.
