European Commission
Filip Tanay, Chiara Monti
(Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Refugee Task Force
Sophie Kammerer, Monika Kalocinska
(Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Unit A.1: Employment and Social Aspects
of European Semester)
EEPO Country Experts
Belgium: Robert Plasman, DULBEA — Université de Bruxelles (University of Brussels),
Brussels
Bulgaria: Pobeda Loukanova, Economic Research Institute, Sofia
Czech Republic: Daniel Münich, CERGE-EI — Centre for Economic Research & Graduate
Education (Charles University) — Economics Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences),
Prague
Denmark: Per Kongshøj Madsen, CARMA — Centre for Labour Market Research, Aalborg
Universitet (Aalborg University), Aalborg
Germany: Nicola Düll, Economix Research & Consulting, Munich
Estonia: Kirsti Nurmela, Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Tallinn
Ireland: Seamus McGuiness, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
Greece: Dimitris Karantinos, EKKE — National Centre of Social Research, Athens
Spain: Elvira González Gago, Research4Consulting, Madrid
France: Sandrine Gineste, Bernard Brunhes Consultants, Paris
Italy: Giuseppe Ciccarone, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (Giacomo Brodolini
Foundation), Rome
Cyprus: Louis N. Christofides, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
Latvia: Alfreds Vanags, BICEPS — Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy
Studies, Riga
Lithuania: Boguslavas Gruževskis and Inga Blaziene, Institute of Labour and Social
Research, Vilnius
Luxembourg: Patrick Thill, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER),
Esch-sur-Alzette
Croatia: Zdenko Babić, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb
Hungary: Ágota Scharle, Budapest Szakpolitikai Elemző Intézet Kft (Budapest Institute
for Policy Analysis Ltd), Budapest
Malta: Manwel Debono, Centre for Labour Studies, L-Università ta' Malta (University of
Malta), Msida
Netherlands: Marc van der Meer, ReflecT Institute, Universiteit van Tilburg (University
of Tilburg), Tilburg
Austria: Ferdinand Lechner, Lechner, Reiter und Riesenfelder Sozialforschung OG,
Vienna
Poland: Łukasz Sienkiewicz, Instytut Analiz Rynku Pracy (Institute for Labour Market
Analyses), Warsaw
Portugal: Reinhard Naumann, DINÂMIA — Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança
Socioeconómica (Research Centre on Socioeconomic Change), Lisbon
Romania: Cătălin Ghinăraru, National Labour Research Institute, Bucharest
Slovenia: Miroljub Ignjatović, Fakulteta za druzbene vede, Univerza v Ljubljani (Faculty
of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), Ljubljana
Slovakia: Luboš Vagač, Centrum pre hospodársky rozvoj (Centre for Economic
Development), Bratislava
Finland: Esa Jokinen, Benefit Studies, Tampere
Sweden: Dominique Anxo, CELMS HB — Centre for European Labour Market Studies HB,
Gothenburg
United Kingdom: Kenneth Walsh, TERN — Training & Employment Research Network,
Kidderminster
Turkey: Hakan Ercan, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Department of Economics, Middle
East Technical University), Ankara
Norway: Sissel C. Trygstad, Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning (Fafo
Institute of Labour and Social Research), Oslo
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