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For a European Framework directive on a Minimum Income (own initiative opinion)

Adottati on 20/02/2019
Referenza: 
SOC/584-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Georges DASSIS (Workers - GR II / Greece)

The EESC launched the idea of a Framework Directive on a European Minimum Income already in 2013 (SOC/482). As the principle of minimum income was integrated in the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), it was again supported twice by the EESC (SOC/542 and SOC/564). Applying the open method of coordination (OMC) as the only mechanism to reduce poverty continues to be insufficient to achieve the target set in the Europe 2020 Strategy. Introducing a binding European framework for a decent minimum income in Europe, enabling minimum income schemes in the Member States to be made "decent" (adequate) is a key European response to the serious and persistent problem of poverty in Europe.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: For a European Framework directive on a Minimum Income (own initiative opinion)

Promoting healthy and sustainable diets in the EU (own-initiative opinion)

Adottati on 20/02/2019
Referenza: 
NAT/755-EESC-2018-04568
Rapporteur: 
Peter Schmidt (Workers - GR II / Germany)
Sessjoni plenarja: 
541 -
Feb 20, 2019 Feb 21, 2019

The own-initiative opinion aims to analyse the link between current food systems and diet-related diseases;  identify policies, tools and instruments that are needed to foster healthier diets both on the supply and demand side, for example sustainable dietary guidelines, sustainable food labelling schemes, education modules in school curricula, information campaigns, specific agricultural schemes (such as the EU school food scheme), food product reformulation, etc.; highlight examples of good practices at national and local level - including civil society and business initiatives; contribute to the debate on the implementation of food-related SDGs and in the context of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition; provide recommendations for future EU action.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Promoting healthy and sustainable diets in the EU (own-initiative opinion)

Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (recast)

Adottati on 23/01/2019
Referenza: 
SOC/608-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 634 final 2018/0329 CODCOM(2018) 634 final 2018/0329 COD
Rapporteur: 
José Antonio MORENO DÍAZ (Workers - GR II / Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
Vladimíra DRBALOVÁ (Employers - GR I/Czech Republic)

The EESC welcomes the Commission's efforts to speed up returns, but regrets that the recast was not supported by an impact assessment and/or public consultation on the existing Directive 2008/115/EC.

The EESC believes that an effective returns policy should be part of a truly common policy and legislation for legal migration and for asylum, which is currently missing, giving the impression that the EU adopts a purely security and policing-focused vision of migration as a criminal matter. Such a comprehensive common EU migration policy would also be the best answer to the extreme right-wing and nationalist discourse on migration.

The EESC welcomes the Commission's efforts to making the return procedure quicker and more efficient. Even so, consideration should be given to how realistic the proposed time-scales are and an assessment made of the obstacles that could frustrate this intention.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (recast)

Euro area economic policy (2019)

Adottati on 23/01/2019
Referenza: 
ECO/485-EESC-2018-05763-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2018) 759 final
Rapporteur: 
Javier DOZ ORRIT (Workers - GR II / Spain)

The EESC is of the opinion that building economic resilience, an objective that underlies the recommendations of the European Commission on the economic policy of the euro area, is of the utmost importance for the euro area economies. However, the Committee would like to stress that the pursuit of economic resilience should go hand in hand with increased labour market resilience, that is, the capacity of labour markets to weather shocks with limited social costs.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Euro area economic policy (2019)

Retail sector (Communication)

Adottati on 12/12/2018
Referenza: 
INT/854-EESC-2018-02861-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2018) 219 final COM(2018) 219 final
Rapporteur: 
Ronny LANNOO (Diversity Europe - GR III / Belgium)
Co-rapporteur: 
Gerardo LARGHI (Workers - GR II/Italy)

The EESC calls on the authorities at all levels to engage in close cooperation with all the stakeholders with a view to drawing up a specific action plan on the future of European retail in the 21st century.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Retail sector (Communication)

Costs of non-immigration (and non-integration) (own-initiative opinion)

Adottati on 12/12/2018
Referenza: 
SOC/574-EESC-2018-02459-00-00-AC-TRA
Rapporteur: 
Pavel TRANTINA (Diversity Europe - GR III / Czech Republic)
Co-rapporteur: 
José Antonio MORENO DÍAZ (Workers - GR II/Spain)

The EESC points out that a non-immigration scenario in Europe would mean among other things that Member States' economies would suffer substantially; demographic challenges would be aggravated; pension systems might become unsustainable; racism and xenophobia would flourish even more than at present. Non-integration bears economic, socio-cultural and political risks and costs. Hence, investment in migrant integration is the best insurance policy against potential future costs, problems and tensions.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Costs of non-immigration (and non-integration) (own-initiative opinion)

Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online

Adottati on 12/12/2018
Referenza: 
SOC/609-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 640 final 2018/0331 CODCOM(2018) 640 final 2018/0331 COD
Rapporteur: 
José Antonio MORENO DÍAZ (Workers - GR II / Spain)

The EESC welcomes the Commission proposal on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, while calling for the indeterminate legal concepts such as "terrorist information, terrorist acts, terrorist groups or advocacy of terrorism" to be defined as precisely as possible. The EESC highlights the need to assess the effects of the application of this proposal on SMEs, as well as to consider transition arrangements facilitating their adaptation and a level playing field.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online

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