The European Employment Strategy: Genesis and Development

The "European Employment Strategy" should be - in my opion - one of the major subjects of our network. As an introduction to the history of the EES, you can read this article below:

"ABSTRACT ( The conclusions of the European summits since 1992 and the content of the
Amsterdam Treaty seem to imply that the employment issue has finally reached the Community
agenda. How far does the new approach differ from policy? How were the changes of the 1990s
achieved? This article reviews previous EU social policy as regards employment issues, then
analyses the different elements of the European employment strategy (EES) and offers a
preliminary assessment. A major question addressed is how, compared to previous regulation
methods, this new process is likely to affect the legitimacy and efficiency of ‘Social Europe’."