At a high-level roundtable held by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Committee members and stakeholders stressed that renovation could help Europe emerge from the crisis, but that it needs to be accompanied by measures on poverty.
Despite being a party to the Aarhus Convention since 2005, the European Union is still not fully complying with its "access to justice" provisions. In its opinion adopted on 27 January, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) welcomes the Commission's proposal to revise the EU Aarhus Regulation as a step forward in improving access to administrative and judicial review procedures in environmental matters for citizens and NGOs. However, the Commission does not go far enough. Civil society organisations are asking the EU for stronger enforcement mechanisms to deliver effectively on the Aarhus Convention and on the European Green Deal.
In response to the Commission Communication Stepping up Europe's 2030 climate ambition, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) reaffirms that the Commission's decision to raise the EU's ambition on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to at least 55% below 1990 levels by 2030 is the right one. However, in its opinion Stepping up Europe's climate ambition, the EESC insists on increasing efforts to achieve the intermediate targets, speeding up the process and placing the European citizens at the centre of climate action. Failing this, the EU will be at risk of missing its climate-neutral goal by 2050.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) stresses that a greener and fairer economy is needed and that the EU Clean Hydrogen Strategy provides an opportunity to achieve exactly that.
Der Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) unterstützt die Strategie der Kommission zur Integration des Energiesystems, warnt jedoch, dass die Frage der Energieversorgungssicherheit auf der Basis grüner Energie unbeantwortet bleibt.
The UN's special envoy on poverty, Olivier De Schutter, participated in the January plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), revealing the conclusions of his mission to the EU institutions. Despite growth and stability, poverty still remains an issue, leaving some 92 million people at risk.
In einer Plenardebatte mit der für Inneres zuständigen EU-Kommissarin Ylva Johansson begrüßte der Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) zwar das Paket, kritisierte es aber auch als wenig ambitioniert und zaghaft: Das Paket sei zu sehr auf Grenzen und Rückführungen ausgelegt und beinhalte zu wenige praktikable Lösungen für ein solidarisches Migrationsmanagement.
In seiner Stellungnahme zur Wirtschaftspolitik des Euro-Währungsgebiets für 2021 begrüßt der Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) die Empfehlungen der Kommission, fordert jedoch, bei den Haushaltsregeln zu einer stärker wohlstandsorientierten wirtschaftspolitischen Steuerung überzugehen. Das beinhaltet auch eine goldene Regel für öffentliche Investitionen.
On 13 January the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) of the European Economic and Social committee (EESC) held its inaugural meeting to welcome new members and adopt the 2021work programme.
The CCMI president, Pietro Francesco De Lotto, vice-president Monika Sitarova and the EESC's members and external delegates, whose term of office runs from November 2020 to November 2025, adopted the CCMI's Political Guidelines and Work Programme for 2021 unanimously.
