Expanding the post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) to 2% of EU GDP and mobilising all available instruments (RRF, InvestEU, EIB, ESM) to close the EU’s investment deficit in green, digital, social and strategic sectors.
Developing a moderately expansionary monetary policy once inflation is under control and strengthening the role of euro as a global reserve currency by introducing the digital euro, using the stock of EU debt and completing the capital markets and banking union.
Ensuring permanent and structured involvement of social partners and civil society organisations in the European Semester, while protecting sustainable finance rules, social spending and cohesion against excessive fiscal consolidation or defence-driven imbalances.
Boosting investment in strategically important industries, innovation and integrated capital markets, while ensuring fair mobility, social and environmental standards, as well as a competitive services sector.
Creating fiscal space through the newly revised EU fiscal rules and an EU investment capacity to finance growth-enhancing projects, while building buffers in times of recovery.
Strengthening the EU’s global economic position by pursuing bilateral trade agreements, reforming the WTO, and adopting a coordinated strategy to close gaps in productivity, research, investment and competitiveness.
The EESC Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) organised a hearing on "Accessible and Affordable Housing for All: Ensuring Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the EU". It brought together voices from the EU institutions, civil society, disability organisations and housing experts to address the urgent challenge of affordable and accessible housing across Europe.
advocates implementing the EU customs reform as quickly as possible, in particular the part concerning e-commerce, and urges the EU Member States to immediately give the Commission a mandate to develop the customs data hub;
calls for the abolishment of the EUR 150 customs duty exemption and for the implementation of the ‘deemed importer’ model across the EU, shifting responsibility from consumers to platforms; and
insists that all third-country platforms appoint an EU-based responsible economic operator with full legal liability, as required by the Digital Services Act, and be recognised as central actors in the supply chain.
