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Calls for structured consultation process to be established at European level and meaningful involvement of civil society and social partners in economic policymaking, aiming to boost legitimacy, trust, and ownership across the EU.
Insists that Member States must implement Country-Specific Recommendations more effectively and speed up the implementation of Recovery and Resilience Plans, with better planning, coordination, transparency, and administrative capacity.
Urges coordinated public and private investment, Strategic Investment Fund to boost the EU's financing capacity and stresses the need to rapidly increase a massive mobilization of private savings through the completion of the Capital Markets Union and to increase the EIB’s financial capacity.
Calls for more transparent and structured consultation processes, including formalised procedures, early and meaningful involvement, adequate resources and training, and mechanisms to ensure that feedback results in tangible outcomes.
Shares key lessons from the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), stressing the importance of reducing administrative burdens, streamlining procedures, strengthening the role and the involvement of civil society and social partners, and enhancing coordination, planning, and monitoring.
Stresses the urgent need to address delays in Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) implementation through better planning, resource allocation, and simplified administrative processes. Recommendations include cutting unnecessary paperwork, embracing digital tools, and investing in training to boost project management capacity.
Ensuring health security for future generations within the EU
In this issue:
Members on ways to ensure (mental) health security
Guest articles by Lejla Šehić Relić (Centre for European Volunteering), Ian Mostert (Dutch Institute for Nature Education) and Christelle Savall (Young European Federalists)
Interview with rapporteur Miguel Ángel Cabra de Luna on how to address loneliness (EESC opinion SOC/813)
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive 2014/45/EU on periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers and Directive 2014/47/EU on the technical roadside inspection of the…
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive 2014/45/EU on periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers and Directive 2014/47/EU on the technical roadside inspection of the…
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the registration documents for vehicles and vehicle registration data recorded in national vehicle registers and repealing Council Directive 1999/37/EC
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the registration documents for vehicles and vehicle registration data recorded in national vehicle registers and repealing Council Directive 1999/37/EC
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the registration documents for vehicles and vehicle registration data recorded in national vehicle registers and repealing Council Directive 1999/37/EC