Opinions

  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
    Referencia
    REX/599-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Greece
    Workers - GR II
    Germany
    Plenary session number
    599
    -
  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 11/07/2024
    Referencia
    ECO/651-EESC
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Information Report ECO/651 and Own-initiative opinion ECO/652 are a continuation of the European Semester Group's (ESG) work to consult annually national economic and social councils, social partners and civil society organisations from EU Member States on reform and investment proposals made in the context of the European Semester and their implementation in the Member States. The Information Report aims to collect the views of social partners and civil society organisations in the Member States on the reform and investment proposals and their implementation, in particular those indicated in the 2024 Country-Specific Recommendations. The Own-initiative opinion aims to complement the Information Report and to include the EESC's policy recommendations based on the results of the stakeholder consultation. It allows the EESC to formulate general and specific considerations, and to present the associated EESC's conclusions and policy proposals.

  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 11/07/2024
    Referencia
    ECO/652-EESC-2024
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Information Report ECO/651 and Own-initiative opinion ECO/652 are a continuation of the European Semester Group's (ESG) work to consult annually national economic and social councils, social partners and civil society organisations from EU Member States on reform and investment proposals made in the context of the European Semester and their implementation in the Member States. The Information Report aims to collect the views of social partners and civil society organisations in the Member States on the reform and investment proposals and their implementation, in particular those indicated in the 2024 Country-Specific Recommendations. The Own-initiative opinion aims to complement the Information Report and to include the EESC's policy recommendations based on the results of the stakeholder consultation. It allows the EESC to formulate general and specific considerations, and to present the associated EESC's conclusions and policy proposals.

    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: The EESC's recommendations on the reform and investment proposals formulated as part of the 2024-2025 European Semester cycle
  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
    Referencia
    REX/597-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Bulgaria
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Greece
    Plenary session number
    598
    -
  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/02/2025
    Referencia
    REX/605-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Denmark
    Plenary session number
    599
    -
  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/02/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/665-EESC-2025
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: Investments and reforms for competitiveness and a Capital Markets Union
  • En curso (updated on 24/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
    Referencia
    REX/602-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    599
    -
  • En curso (updated on 23/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/662-EESC-2025
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: The road to the next Multiannual Financial Framework
  • En curso (updated on 23/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 28/04/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/678-EESC-2025
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen del CESE: Amendment to the Capital Requirements Regulation - prudential requirements
  • En curso (updated on 23/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/03/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/672-EESC-2025
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen del CESE: Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee
  • En curso (updated on 23/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/03/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/676-EESC-2025-1236
    Employers - GR I
    Czech Republic
    Plenary session number
    596
    -
    Download — Dictamen del CESE: Cohesion policy mid-term review (2025)
  • En curso (updated on 23/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 27/02/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/667-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    599
    -
  • En curso (updated on 22/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referencia
    ECO/660-EESC-2025-00091
    Plenary session number
    598
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  • En curso (updated on 22/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/03/2025
    Referencia
    INT/1091-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    599
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    The new state aid framework aims to draw from the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, a crisis measure to help countries support industry in the fallout from the pandemic and the Ukraine war. The new framework seeks to accompany the Clean Industrial Deal by setting out how Member States can design State aid measures to support its objectives, and will be in force until end 2030. 

  • En curso (updated on 17/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/02/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/668-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    599
    -
  • En curso (updated on 17/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/02/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/669-EESC-2025-853
    Workers - GR II
    Malta
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen del CESE: A shorter settlement cycle for securities transactions in the EU
  • En curso (updated on 17/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 28/04/2025
    Referencia
    INT/1093-EESC-2025-2025-01430
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Background 

    The proposed flexibility measure allows manufacturers' compliance with the CO2 targets for 2025, 2026 and 2027 to be assessed over the entire three-year period averaging their performance, rather than annually.

    Download — Dictamen del CESE: Flexibility/2025 CO2 emission targets for new cars and vans
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 25/03/2025
    Referencia
    INT/1092-EESC-01402-00-00-AC-TRA
    Workers - GR II
    Malta
    Plenary session number
    601
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    This exploratory opinion will focus on the comprehensive evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives that the Commission has envisaged to carry out; such evaluation will look into whether the current rules are fit for purpose or not. The EESC opinion aims at contributing to this exercise reflecting the perspective of civil society.

  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referencia
    INT/1078-EESC-2025
    Employers - GR I
    France
    Plenary session number
    596
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    This own-initiative opinion will examine the impact of single market fragmentation on the cost of living and competitiveness and look into successful EU initiatives to tackle such issues. It will aim at proposing possible solutions, with particular attention to consumer protection, to the cost-of-living crisis.

    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: How single market dysfunctionalities contribute to the rising cost of living
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referencia
    NAT/946-EESC-2024
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Romania
    Plenary session number
    596
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    EESC opinion NAT/946 Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies while ensuring European competitiveness, mitigating the cost-of-living crisis, and promoting a just transition. Foreseen adoption at the EESC Plenary: 29-30 April 2025.

    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies while ensuring European competitiveness, mitigating the cost-of-living crisis, and promoting a just transition
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referencia
    TEN/846-EESC-2024
    Workers - GR II
    Austria
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: Price hikes in transport, energy and housing: the role of quality public services in tackling the high cost of living
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referencia
    ECO/661-EESC-2024-2024-04534
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Romania
    Plenary session number
    596
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    This own-initiative opinion constitutes the contribution of the ECO section to the 2025 EESC transversal own-initiative opinion package on the cost-of-living crisis, looking at specific economic policy measures that can help make the European economy future-proof.

    Download — Dictamen de la Sección del CESE: Measures for a resilient, cohesive and inclusive European economy
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
    Referencia
    ECO/663-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Romania
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    598
    -
  • En curso (updated on 16/04/2025) - Bureau decision date: 28/04/2025
    Referencia
    NAT/958-EESC-2025
    Plenary session number
    596
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    Download — Dictamen del CESE: Simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism