Monitoring. A first research step is to address and monitor family policies and related policy fields. This is a basic need to achieve an overview of family‐related frameworks, laws and rules throughout the European nations and at every level (European, national, sub‐national/regional, maybe similar to the idea of MIPEX). A comparison of national policies may also help to assess the outcome of policy measures. Additionally, the intentions and outlines of the EU need to be summed up to compare its goals with the prevailing situation in the member states...Read more
Family Platform: Research Agenda on Families and Family Wellbeing for Europe
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
