I published this article in Social Europe in which I reflect on the urgency of a mental strategy for the EU. This strategy should go hand in hand with a strengthening of the welfare state. Mental health treatment involves a series of services ranging from health and social care, to employment, education or housing.
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The Parliament’s Committees on Employment and Social Affairs and on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety have begun working on evaluating and improving the Commission’s proposal for the creation of a Social Climate Fund. The Fund is part of the ‘Fit For 55’ package that was presented last summer, and which is composed of
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On 15 October the event “Augmented Exploitation – AI, Automation & Mental Health at work” took place. The webinar was co-organised in collaboration with my colleague Agnes Jongerius, coordinator in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament. The event brought together high-level experts and policy-makers from different fields, who shared excellent
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People working for digital labour platforms should have the same rights and the same access to social protection as other workers. In this regard, in the Plenary debate of the European Parliament on platform work, I defended labour rights, human control of algorithms, the regulation of artificial intelligence at the workplace and the prevention of
On 17 June 2021, I organised a webinar that addresses the role of inclusive companies within the social economy, together with my colleague from the Spanish Socialist Delegation in the European Parliament, Alicia Homs. The event was attended by representantives of the European Confederation of Inclusive Enterprises (EuCIE), the European Disability Forum (EDF), the Spanish
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The European Commission presented its New European Bauhaus initiative in the European Parliament during a joint meeting of coordinators of the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) and CULT Committees (Culture and Education). The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that opens up a meeting space to design future ways of living and
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On 8 February 2021, I defended the social economy model as a pillar of the welfare state in the full debate on reducing inequalities and labour poverty. There is growing inequality both within the EU and between Member States. As we know, the European Commission’s Europe 2020 target of reducing the number of people at
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The European Parliament has given its green light this Thursday to a report on access to decent and affordable housing for all that outlines a number of proposals on housing policies in the EU. It has advocated a universalist housing model aimed at meeting the needs of all, especially of the most vulnerable groups such
On 15 October 2020, I participated as speaker in an online conference organized by the European Socialist Party in the European Committee of the Regions. The objective of this event which was organised in the framework of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2020 was to identify the different obstacles that public administrations are
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On 30 September of 2020, I was a speaker at an online conference organised by Eurocities. Eurocities is a network of 190 cities in 39 countries across the European Union that cooperates with the European Committee of the Regions to ensure that both cities and their citizens are heard. The aim of the event was
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