About ELNEP

The ELNEP was founded in autumn 2006 to provide a counterweight to mainstream policy advice in Europe. The participating institutes identified a worrying lack of diversity in the European economic policy debate, which is biased heavily towards the supply side, exhibits a knee-jerk preference for ‘market’ solutions over social institutions, and draws conclusions from the micro for the macro level and from national for European policies.

The analytical and forecasting activities of the ELNEP put greater emphasis on macro policies and consider both demand and supply side measures to be crucial in supporting growth and employment. The network pays particular attention to issues of the labour market, employment, wages and income distribution, and wherever appropriate takes a European, rather than national, perspective: policies that may work in a single country may be counterproductive at European level.

The members of the network are financially and intellectually independent. At the same time they have institutional links to national labour movements, providing additional insights in the area of pay developments. The regional diversity of the network ensures in-depth expertise at country level. Currently the ELNEP comprises nine institutes.

• AGORA (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Arbeiterkammer Wien (AK, Vienna, Austria)
• Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety (ETUI-REHS, Brussels, Belgium)
• Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES, Paris, France)
• Labour Institute for Economic Research (LIER, Helsinki, Finland)
• Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK, Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Fundación Sindical de Estudios (FSE, Madrid, Spain)
• Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB, Rome, Italy)

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ELNEP in the press

The Financial Times publishes Andrew Watt's article entitled: "Rising Wages are the least of Europe's worries" 13/05/2008

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Latest ELNEP news

The European Labour Network for Economic Policy (ELNEP) released its spring forecast on 8th May: read more

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