📢 On current #economic topics about wages, prices, and living standards during elections and citizens’ economic #expectations, our Executive Director Blagica Petreski spoke on the Greek national television ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΡΑΔΙΟΦΩΝΙΑ ΤΗΛΕΟΡΑΣΗ – Σύνορα.
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Reflecting on our initial activities and contributions to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Our Executive Director Blagica Petreski met with colleagues and partners from Finance Think at the institutions of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, on April 22, 2024.
Participating in the meeting of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the critical aspects of accessibility and adequacy of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services for economic development and household well-being were discussed. We take pride in supporting policies for sustainable development and improving living standards.
#EESC #Development #Wellbeing
The whole interview is available here.
The partnership will analyze, monitor and make proposals related to budget spending and public debt in the country.
In a joint initiative, the findings of our #research will be conveyed in the magazine in a condensed form in order to bring the results of the research work and their policy relevance to a wider readership.
More at this link.
Through created knowledge and dialogue with the relevant institutions, we prioritized policies to deal with multidimensional child poverty in the three sectors: social protection, health and education.
Measuring indicators for children is crucial for monitoring the effectiveness of measures and policies and for timely correction.
Child poverty is a multidimensional problem and requires a multi-sectoral approach.
The initiative is in partnership with UNICEF MK
Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Statistics Office, the Bureau for the Development of Education and other institutions from the relevant sectors were actively involved.
More photos at the link: https://shorturl.at/rxyHW
food and 
energy price crisis.
On that occasion, our latest Policy Brief 
examines who has made the most of the government’s anti-crisis package.
The measures saved a significant #part of household income, especially the #poorer households and especially the measures from the #last package that are in force during this year 2024. However, as a significant contingent of the measures were #untargeted, especially from the #first package, they allocated/saved a larger #amount of income to wealthier households. Although the targeting of the measures from the third package is the largest of all three packages, at least two of the measures carry the risk of an increased budget burden. In particular, support for #pensioners remains relatively broadly targeted and resembles a #pre-election measure.
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On Thursday, the EESC officially launched its initiative to involve representatives of #civil society from EU candidate countries.
Finance Think is part of 
selected representatives of civil society from North Macedonia, in addition to representatives of employers and workers (unions).
As representatives of civil society from candidate countries, we will contribute to the process of drafting selected #opinions of the EESC and participate in relevant #study groups, section meetings and selected #plenary sessions of the EESC.
#EUCivilSociety #Enlargement #EESC #FinanceThink