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Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO)

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The biggest ever survey on violence against women across the EU, to be presented today in Brussels (05.03.2014)

The results of the biggest ever violence against women survey in the EU are to be presented today (05.03.2014) in Brussels, at a high-level conference held under the auspices of the Greek Presidency and in cooperation with the Secretariat General of the Council of the EU.

The survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is based on interviews with 42,000 women across the EU’s 28 Member States, who have spoken out about their experiences of abuse at home, at work, in public and online.

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Nutrition and Physical Activity from Childhood to Old Age: Challenges and opportunities

Two-day conference in Athens (25 - 26.2.14)
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Council confirms deal on the financing of reinforced pharmacovigilance

The Permanent Representatives Committee today approved a compromise agreed with the European Parliament on a draft regulation aimed at ensuring the funding of strengthened post-authorisation monitoring of medicines for human use ("pharmacovigilance") conducted at EU level.
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75th Meeting of Heads of Medicine Agencies (18-19.02.2014)

The two-day event is held at Zappeion Megaron in Athens, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health.
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OAED Conference on apprenticeship: vocational education and training as a vehicle to tackle youth unemployment in the EU

The Greek Manpower Employment Organization (OAED), under the auspices of the Greek Presidency, is organising today (14.2.2014) at Zappeion Megaron, a conference on apprenticeship that aims at highlighting the significant contribution of quality apprenticeship systems in tackling youth unemployment and achieving the goals of the "Youth Guarantee” European initiative.

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Strengthening public employment services cooperation to tackle the unemployment crisis

The Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) approved on Friday 7 February a compromise agreed provisionally with the European Parliament on a decision on enhanced co-operation between public employment services (PES).
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Europe’s urgent need for a growth-sensitive policy on gender equality

A meeting of the High-Level Working Group on Gender Mainstreaming took place at Zappeion Megaron, in Athens on 6-7 February 2014.
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Meeting of the High-Level Working Group on Gender Mainstreaming in progress today (07.02) in Athens

The meeting that has started yesterday (06.02) and is in progress today (07.02) in Athens, is organized every semester by the Presidency of the Council of the EU with the participation of the governmental authorities in charge of gender equality at the 28 Member States, the European Commission, the Secretariat of the Council and the European Institute for Gender Equality. The aim of the meeting is the coordination of actions of the Trio Presidency in the field of equality between women and men in the European Union.

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Strengthening employment and social cohesion - European Social Fund (ESF) Launch Conference in Brussels

Greek Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare, Ioannis Vroutsis addressed today a European Social Fund (ESF) Launch Conference for the period 2014-2020 in Brussels.

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Greek Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare to deliver an opening keynote speech at the ESF Launch Conference (Brussels, 6.2.2014)

Greek Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare, Ioannis Vroutsis together with László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, will open a conference for the new programming period 2014-2020 of the European Social Fund (ESF), which will take place on 6-7 February 2014 in Brussels.

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