Measures for a resilient, cohesive and inclusive European economy

The European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC) ECO section has adopted a key opinion setting out a broad strategy to tackle the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and reinforce the EU’s long-term economic and social resilience. The EESC argues that the challenges and uncertainties the EU faces demand not incremental adjustments but a fundamental rethinking of the EU’s economic model. Focusing on the economic dimension, this opinion marks the starting point of a coordinated series of recommendations on addressing the cost-of-living crisis from across the Committee’s sections, to be rolled out in the coming months.

Key points

In the opinion, ECO recommends

• Creating a permanent EU economic resilience monitoring system to anticipate and mitigate future shocks.
• Establishing a permanent EU-level fiscal stabilisation tool, building on the experience of NextGenerationEU.
• Launching a €700 billion annual investment strategy (1% of EU GDP) focused on infrastructure, energy security, and digitalisation.
• Identifying and addressing the 20 most critical supply chain dependencies.

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Additional information

EESC section: Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion (ECO)

Opinion type: Own-initiative opinion

Rapporteur: Elena CALISTRU (Diversity Europe – GR III, Romania)

Reference: ECO/661-EESC-2025

Date of adoption by section: 15/4/2025

Date of adoption in plenary: 29-30/4/2025

Contact

Thomas Kersten

Press Officer

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Email : thomas.kersten@eesc.europa.eu

Krisztina Perlaky-Toth

Policy Officer

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Email: eco@eesc.europa.eu