Dec. 24 – After a negotiation phase that lasted about a year, it is now official: Tiziano Treu, special commissioner of INPS, has signed the contract for the European Project “Social Protection Reform Project – SPrP” with the European Delegation in Beijing. The project aims to provide the Chinese government authorities with specialist support for the drafting of the social protection system reform, and will be developed on three main areas: design and implementation of reforms and social security policies; capacity building for financial management and funding supervision for social security; improvement of the legal framework and assistance and social security policies. The goal is to build a dialogue and information exchange mechanism between EU Member States and China, to establish and nurture collaboration and mutual support relationships.
