Activities
- Special Sessions.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2016.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2015.
- Austrian Court of Audit Professional Development Conference.
- WU Competence Day 2015.
- 8th FIW Conference.
- Research Centre Brno Conference 2015.
- Economic modelling of European environmental tax.
- 2015 Expo Milan.
- EURA 2015.
- Workshop at OeNB.
- Press Conference at EFA 2015.
- European Forum Alpbach 2015.
- Final NAEC Synthesis Report.
- 2015 World Economic History Congress.
- 6th ZEW/MaCCI Conference.
- ESEE Conference 2015.
- EAERE21.
- 2015 OECD NERO Meeting in Paris.
- ÖGFE Europa Club.
- 43rd OeNB Conference.
- Economic Challenges in Enlarged Europe.
- EUROFRAME 2015.
- 2015 AIEAA Conference.
- Whitsun Dialogue 2015.
- FairTax.
- NAEC in Austria.
- Tax evasion and tax oases: Do European solutions stand a chance?.
- Pluralism in Economics.
- Le Monde op-ed.
- NAEC@INET.
- INET Conference 2015.
- SOER 2015.
- UN Expert Group Meeting.
- Friends of Europe Report Presentation.
- WWWforEurope in Policy Review.
- WWWinds of Change.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2014.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2013.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2012.
Unequal Europe - Recommendations for a more caring EU
Karl Aiginger. WWWforEurope project co-ordinator and director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research, attended the presentation of the new report titled „Unequal Europe – Recommendations for a more caring EU“, the final report of a high-level group of experts under the chairmanship of former Belgian deputy Prime Minister and social affairs Minister Frank Vandenbroucke, supported by the think tank Friends of Europe. Among the experts who worked on the report were former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor and Anna Diamantopoulou, former Greek minister of development and competitiveness.
The "Unequal Europe" report assesses the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the social policies that have been fundamental to the creation of the EU. Based on its findings, recommendations to the new European Commission and the EU institutions as a whole have been formulated, especially actions both to reaffirm Europe’s social principles and to address its competitiveness goals. The report was presented by the Friends of Europe in Brussels on February 23rd, 2015, with László Andor, Frank Vandenbroucke and Danuta Jazlowiecka, Vice Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and many others in attendance.
At the presentation Karl Aiginger proposed to address the European problems in a joint strategy, providing at the same time more dynamics, ecological excellence and less unemployment. Such a strategy would make Europe the best socio-economic model of the world and could be offered to its neighbours as a basis for closer cooperations.