Übersetzung für "Rat für soziale angelegenheiten" in Englisch

More generally, it is the Commission's intention to apply its financial support in ways which can contribute to the overall objective of employment expansion.

I have also heard that the Social Affairs Council will be meeting on 15 April.

The network co­ordinators met in Brussels in early December for a week's work during which they were able to get up­to­date on the latest developments in European social policy. In 1997, the ETUC launched many initiatives in Central Europe.

The Directive was adopted by the Social Affairs Council on 15 December 1997.

In view of our discussions in July I would propose a resolution for agreement at the Social Affairs Council in December which sets out how the Union and individual Member States might implement this role in a complementary way.

We need to give the Social Affairs Council, labour ministers and ministers of employment the same kind of clout as EPC gives to the Ecofin ministers of finance.

It is therefore high time we had a committee for the Social Affairs Council which can put its contribution to employment strategy on a more equal footing.

The committee is a body supported by the Social Affairs Council charged with the implementation and development of European employment strategy.

I would still like to ask the Council whether they consider that Article 36 in the report applies. This article maintains that on issues concerning goods which can damage people's health Member States have the right to introduce import restrictions.

The fact that the European Parliament has approved this report could be decisive for future developments in this situation, either because the Portuguese Parliament decides now to adopt similar legislation or because the Council of Ministers for Social Affairs comes to accept the new proposals and they are required to be incorporated in national legislation.

In this respect, I would also like to stress that the common position will not be adopted at the Social Affairs Council on 17 April. It will only be done at the Council in June.

But all the same my group looked forward expectantly to the Council of Social Affairs Ministers for both short term concrete agreements and the impetus for new longer term policy.

The measures agreed in Luxembourg, which were formally adopted by the Social Affairs Council on 15 December 1997, will be applied to all Member States across the European Union.

But I doubt whether this proposal will in fact put the Social Affairs Council on an equal footing, and for two reasons.

In operational terms this balanced policy mix must be reflected in a fairer balance between the Social Affairs Council on the one hand and Ecofin on the other in the definition of a European employment strategy.

Secondly, the Social Affairs Council must benefit from a strong analysis and proposal capacity in order to fulfil the mandate it was given in Essen jointly with Ecofin and the Commission to keep a close track of employment trends in the Union, monitor the relevant policies of the Member States and to report annually to the European Council on further progress on the employment market.

In the single report on employment, the Ecofin Council and the Social Affairs Council are going to present a joint report in Dublin, for the second time.

The European Council will review progress in the Essen Strategy, the package of restructuring measures designed to increase the job-creating capacity of the European economy, on the basis of a report on employment, jointly produced by the Ecofin and Social Affairs Council meetings as well as the Commission.

One year later, during the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Comunities, Jean-Claude Juncker presides the Council of Social Affairs and Budget.

The rapporteur explained the background to the proposal, following the Social Affairs Council endorsement of the 1999 Commission Communication on a concerted strategy for modernising social protection.

Speaking in Luxemburg today, Padraig Flynn, European Commissioner with responsibility for Employment and Social Affairs, welcomed the fact that the Council of Ministers in charge of Social Affairs have adopted a resolution which condemns "in the strongest terms" racism, xenophobia and anti-semitism in all their forms, flagrant breaches of individual rights and religious intolerance.

In what constitutes an historic decision, the Council of Ministers of Social Affairs has today reached a Common Position on the proposal presented to them by the Commission last April, on the establishment of European Works Councils or procedures in multinational undertakings and groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees.

While men moved up to higher duties for which they were often not sufficiently qualified, women have dropped to lower levels of employment where they have often been working below their degree of qualification.

According to my information, the Council of Ministers for Social Affairs will perhaps be deciding on 30 April about the organization of working time.

When I read through the European Parliament's resolutions of the past two years again, and especially when I reread the conclusions of the European Councils at six-monthly intervals, conclusions which are endorsed by all the Member States, I feel I am watching a second-rate movie the second time round.