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Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021

Tuairimí a glacadh on 24/02/2021
Tagairt: 
ECO/537-EESC-2020-04985-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2020) 575 final
Rapóirtéir: 
Krzysztof BALON (Diversity Europe - GR III / Poland)

The EESC welcomes the fact that the Recovery and Resilience Facility regulation confirms the importance of genuine civil society involvement in the development of national plans and advocates for the establishment of binding conditionality for such consultation. To support economic development the EESC considers the full operation of the Single Market as well as fiscal policies and support measures crucial, while calling for the establishment of new fiscal rules that reflect social and economic realities after the pandemic. New instruments to combat tax evasion, undeclared work and the shadow economy are also called for. The EESC also welcomes the inclusion of the green and digital transitions, but regrets the insufficient attention paid to social issues. Efforts to move rapidly towards a green and digital economy must not result in a further increase in poverty and greater social exclusion. 

Tuairim ó CESE: Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021

The Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (additional opinion)

Tuairimí a glacadh on 29/10/2020
Tagairt: 
ECO/520-EESC-2020
Rapóirtéir: 
Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Workers - GR II / Malta)

This additional opinion updates and complements the proposals made in the original ASGS opinion, adopted in February this year. The EESC welcomes the step forward towards embracing a more social, inclusive and sustainable economic model, particularly given the economic and social effects of COVID-19. To support the economic recovery and public investment, and in support of a digital and green transformation, the EESC believes that a revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, flexibility in state aid rules and a rethink of tax policy is necessary. Well-resourced public health measures and social security systems are likewise of vital importance. The EESC also welcomes the Commission's proposals for Next Generation EU and sees the ASGS as an opportunity for the EU to shift towards an economic model that gives equal weighing to both economic and social objectives.

Tuairim ó CESE: The Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 (additional opinion)

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 (own-initiative opinion)

Tuairimí a glacadh on 11/12/2019
Tagairt: 
SOC/583-EESC-2018
Rapóirtéir: 
Oliver RÖPKE (Workers - GR II / Austria)

Against a background of rising poverty levels during the crisis, levels that remain high in many Member States, in particular among the unemployed, this own-initiative opinion would address the huge differences in levels of protection under national unemployment insurance systems within the EU.
Possible standards in this respect could be:

  • a minimum standard for the net replacement rate of unemployment benefits;
  • a minimum standard of coverage ratio of unemployed people receiving unemployment payments;
  • a minimum standard for the duration of unemployment benefit entitlement;
  • a right to (re)qualification and training

With the objective of promoting upward social convergence within the EU, the proposal for such standards is a concrete step towards effective implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights recently announced by the EU institutions in Gothenburg.

Tuairim ó CESE: 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 (own-initiative opinion)

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