Publications

This brochure is based on the Annual Activity Report 2017, issued in June 2018, which is the European Economic and Social Committee's main annual tool for reporting to the budgetary authority. It provides an overview of all the Committee's activities in 2017.

The LMO has carried out activities in all the areas set out in its 2015-2018 Work programme. In line with its working methods, LMO's activities consisted mainly of public events, internal meetings and a project to assess the implementation of a Council Recommendation on the long-term unemployed in six EU Member States. Due to its large size and the limited number of meetings per year (5), the LMO has not prepared any opinion in recent years, although it did so in its earlier years.

This study on behalf of the Workers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee aims to analyse early initiatives launched in the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and to provide the EESC with concrete policy recommendations to ensure its effective implementation.

This leaflet is part of a series of publications published in the context of the cultural events organised by the EESC.

Songs of Longing was the EESC's 60^th Anniversary Cultural Event.

"Three interwoven artistic threads will lead us through these Songs of Longing, showing us how our diverse cultural heritages nurture contemporary creation; linking us across centuries and continents us to our pasts and hopes for the future, to our joint humanity."