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EIGE is the European knowledge centre on gender equality. Its mission is to make equality between men and women a reality for all Europeans and help people achieve equal opportunities. [2] The Agency supports EU institutions and Member States in designing inclusive and transformative measures to promote gender equality in all areas of life ...
The official EU media (the speeches of the European Commission) frequently referred to the enlargement to the CEE region as "an historical opportunity" and "morally imperative", which reflected the desire of the EU to admit these countries as members, even though they were less developed than the Western European countries.
Had the referendum been in favour of the settlement proposal, the island (excluding the British Sovereign Base Areas) would have joined the European Union as the United Cyprus Republic. The European Union's relations with the Turkish Cypriot Community are handled by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enlargement. [291]
It is the European Union's main financial instrument for supporting employment in the member states of the European Union as well as promoting economic and social cohesion, created by merging the existing European Social Fund with the EU Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) and the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation ...
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure; European countries by percent of population aged 0-14; European countries by percentage of urban population; List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy; List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
[1] [2] It is commonly cited in policy debates in the European Union, including by representatives of both labour unions [3] and employers, [4] to connote broadly "the conviction that economic progress and social progress are inseparable" and that "[c]ompetitiveness and solidarity have both been taken into account in building a successful ...
The largest enlargement of the European Union (EU), in terms of number of states and population, took place on 1 May 2004. The simultaneous accessions concerned the following countries (sometimes referred to as the "A10" countries [1] [2]): Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The number of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs), notably women, is significantly higher in cohesion regions (less developed regions of Europe) than the EU average (11.2 percent in 2023). [17] Lower educational achievement in these places is exacerbated by relatively low levels of reading and numeracy among young people.