European Green Deal
Opinions - Information Reports
Note: Links to the opinions will be added as soon as they are available.
ECO Section
- Taxation mechanics for reducing CO2 emissions
- Enhancing sustainable economic growth across the EU
REX Section
- EU and Africa: making an equal development partnership a reality based on sustainability and common values
- Contribution of civil society to the Green Agenda and sustainable development of the Western Balkans as part of the EU accession process
- A plan for a New Multilateral Matrix (NMM): proposed changes to ensure consistency between international trade, climate change and social rules and standards
- Sustainable development in the Mediterranean region
TEN Section
- L’établissement du ciel unique européen comme condition clé (ou jalon) pour une économie plus efficace et plus verte
- Between a trans-European super grid and local energy islands - the right mix of decentralised solutions and centralised structures for an economically, socially and ecologically sustainable energy transition?
- Un accès universel à un logement décent, durable et abordable dans la durée
INT Section
- Industrial Strategy
- New Circular Economy Action Plan
- No green deal without a social deal: sustainable companies as drivers for a successful 'just transition' - what legal rules are needed at EU level?
- Carbon markets: emergence, structuring and challenges for European Industry
- Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in the new business models
- Towards circular procurement to provide high quality goods and services
NAT Section
- 'From farm to fork': a sustainable food strategy
- An integrated approach for EU's rural areas, with particular emphasis on the vulnerable regions
- Compatibility of EU trade policy with the European Green Deal
- Towards an EU strategy on sustainable consumption (SDO)
- Towards structured youth engagement on climate and sustainability in the EU decision-making process
SOC Section
- Une vie de qualité pour tous les citoyens et dans toutes les régions – Une bonne gouvernance et de bons cadres juridiques pour le bien-être social, politique, culturel, économique et écologique
- EU Competence Framework for Green Skills
CCMI
- Digital Mining in Europe: New solutions for the sustainable production of raw materials
Institutional Resources
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Trade Union & Civil Society Resources
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External Contributions
- Green Deal : « Le modèle européen doit être protégé et partagé » [FR] - Article at lemonde.fr, by EESC Member Christophe Quarez and CPP President Bertrand de Kermel - 23/02/2020
EU Minimum Wage
Opinions
- SOC/614: The European Pillar of Social Rights – evaluation of the initial implementation and recommendations for the future (own-initiative opinion)
- SOC/558: Employment guidelines
- SOC/586: Gender equality in European labour markets
- SOC/584: For a European Framework Directive on minimum income
- SOC/583: Common minimum standards in the field of unemployment insurance in EU Member States – a concrete step towards the effective implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
- SOC/575: Employment opportunities for economically inactive people
- SOC/572: Working conditions directive
- SOC/564: Impact of the social dimension and the European Pillar of Social Rights on the Future of the European Union
- SOC/561: The role and opportunities of social partners and other civil society organizations in the context of the new forms of work
- SOC/542: European Pillar of Social Rights
- SOC/530: Fighting Poverty
Institutional Resources
- Eurostat methodology information on minimum wages - Eurostat
- Eurostat minimum wage statistics - country-specific recommendations - Eurostat
- Labour market and wage developments in Europe: Annual Review 2016 - European Commission
- Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe – Annual Review 2017 - European Commission
- Labour market and wage developments in Europe: Annual Review 2019 - European Commission
- First phase consultation of Social Partners under Article 154 TFEU on a possible action addressing the challenges related to fair minimum wages, 14.01.20 - European Commission
- Special Eurobarometer 471: Fairness, inequality and intergenerational mobility, April 2018 - European Commission
- Research note 2015: The interaction between minimum wages, income support, and poverty - European Commission
- ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work, 21 June 2019 - ILO
- ILO International labour standard instruments on wages - ILO
- World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2019 - ILO
- ILO Minimum Wage Policy Guide - ILO
- Minimum Wage - does it cut poverty? - ILO Labour Education Journal
- Minimum Wages in 2019: Annual Review - Eurofound
- Database of wages, working time and collective disputes, 2019 - Eurofound
- Concept and practice of a living wage, November 2018- Eurofound
- Statutory Minimum Wages 2020 - Eurofound
- Pay in Europe in the 21st Century - Eurofound
- Changes to wage-setting mechanisms in the context of the crisis and the EU’s new economic governance regime - Eurofound
- Towards a European Minimum Wage Policy? Fair Wages and Social Europe - Thorsten Schulten, European Journal of Industrial Relations
- The Minimum Wage: A motor for growth or a brake in the economy? - EPRS, European Parliament
- The fight against poverty, social exclusion and discrimination - European Parliament
- Special Feature: The Tax Treatment of Minimum Wages - OECD
- Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment - OECD
- Issues note: The emergence of new forms of work and their implications for labour relations, February 2018 - OECD
- Real Minimum Wages - OECD
- Sustainable Development Goals - United Nations
Legal Background
- Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation
- Council Decision (EU) 2018/1215 of 16 July 2018 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
- Commission Recommendation of 3 October 2008 on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (notified under document number C(2008) 5737)
- Report on a European Pillar of Social Rights, 2016
- Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union
- European Parliament legislative resolution of 16 April 2019 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union (COM(2017)0797 – C8-0006/2018 – 2017/0355(COD))
- Report on working conditions and precarious employment, 2016
- EP resolution of 10 October 2019 on employment and social policies of the Euro area
Trade Union & Civil Society Resources
- Minimum Wages Press Release - ETUC
- Momentum builds behind a European minimum wage - ETUI
- Article 'Europe can only deliver for people if the economy works well' - Business Europe
- In-work poverty in Europe: a study of national policies. Synthesis Report by the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) 2019 - ESPN/European Commission
- Sustainability through SOLIDAR(ity). SOLIDAR Network contribution to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe and worldwide, 2019 - SOLIDAR
- Achieving a European Minimum Wage? - Sofia Fernandes, Jaques Delors Institute
- Contours of a Minimum Wage Policy - Thorsten Schulten, Firederich Ehbert Stiftung
External Contributions
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