AGF EuropaNews January 2023

This year’s first issue of EuropaNews was published today. We cover the EU child guarantee’s implementation process and the EESC’s statement on the care strategy. We also point to the UN’s call for contributions to the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing. As usual, we also inform about family and social policy developments in Europe and recommend current publications and events. […]

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Archive of EuropaNews

Here you will find all issues of AGF EuropaNews starting with its first issue in May 2011  until the year 2017.

Further publications

European Child Guarantee: Overview of selected aspects of the National Action Plans Netzwerk (Network) 2030: Machbar-Berichte 2018, 2020 and 2021 (Doable-Reports 2018, 2020 and 2021) Publication series on the current system to secure a subsistance level for children in Germany The series covers four parts and looks how the German social law, the tax law and the maintenance law deal […]

AGF EuropaNews

AGF “EuropaNews” gathers the news in the field of family politics from the European level and the EU member states (excluding Germany) from a German perspective. The newsletter aims to bring the news from Europe to Germany, so unfortunately they are only available in German. Current editions EuropaNews 2019 -2022 These are the issues that have been published since 2018. […]

Press Releases

Press Releases before 2010 are only available in German

AGF Position Papers and Statements

The position papers and statements following are listed in chronological order. You will find our press releases in the Presssection, the reports of our events at past events. Positions and Statements before 2011 Comment of AGF on 1. educational study of JAKO-O (in German) Date: September 2010 Download of comment Position Paper on the Fight against and the Prevention of […]

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AGF Statement on the Partial Report of the Independent Advisory Council on the Reconciliation of Care and Work

The AGF has published a statement on the Partial Report of the Independent AdvisoryCouncil on the Reconciliation of Care and Work. The Council released its report ‘Recommendations on Family Care Leave and the Family Care Allowance’ in August 2022. In its report the AGF welcomes the measures proposed as a major step towards relieving the burden on families with relatives […]

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27 Sept 2022: European expert meeting of the AGF in cooperation with COFACE – Families Europe on the implementation of the Child Guarantee

On 27 September 2022, COFACE – Families Europe and the AGF jointly organised an expert discussion on the implementation of the EU Child Guarantee / Child Gurantee in various European countries. Government  and civil society representatives from 17 European countries took part. The event focused on the exchange of information on the status of the implementation of the Child Guarantee in […]

Family organizations support call for new family care leave

[26. 08. 2022] The family organisations united in the AGF emphasize the importance of a family care leave with an appropriately high and socially balanced financial compensation. On the occasion of the delivering of a substudy report by the “independent advisory coucil for reconciliation of care and professional work” to family minister Lisa Paus the organisations stress the large step, […]