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Education about the European Union (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Romanian Presidency)

Adottati on 21/03/2019
Referenza: 
SOC/612-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Tatjana BABRAUSKIENĖ (Workers - GR II / Lithuania)
Co-rapporteur: 
Pavel TRANTINA (Diversity Europe - GR III/Czech Republic)

The opinion, requested by the Romanian Presidency, aims to look at possible ways through which people can acquire solid knowledge about the European Union, its foundations, procedures and actions, as well as its positive achievements and the concrete benefits it offers. This type of education would contribute towards building citizens' ownership over the European decision-making process and ensure that their vision, needs and priorities are adequately reflected in the European agenda at all levels.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Education about the European Union (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Romanian Presidency)

Action Plan against Disinformation

Adottati on 20/03/2019
Referenza: 
TEN/687-EESC-2018
Referral: 
JOIN(2018) 36 final
Rapporteur: 
Ulrich SAMM (Employers - GR I / Germany)
Co-rapporteur: 
Giulia BARBUCCI (Workers - GR II/Italy)

The EESC takes careful note of the initiative's definition of disinformation as verifiably false or misleading information that is a threat to democracy and does public harm. Spreading disinformation has become a part of a hybrid war with a clear political aim. However, it also emphasises that, in addition to false information, highly selective information, defamation, scare-mongering and inciting hatred attack citizens' fundamental rights (freedoms) and minority rights.

Multiple actions from all stakeholders are needed to provide quality information and raise awareness. To this end, the EESC welcomes the initiative for coordinated action to protect the EU, its institutions and its citizens against disinformation. The EESC emphasises the urgency of such measures but is also concerned, however, that the impact of this action plan might be limited given that the May 2019 European elections are not far off.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Action Plan against Disinformation

Harmonised standards: Enhancing transparency and legal certainty for a fully functioning Single Market

Adottati on 20/03/2019
Referenza: 
INT/879-EESC-2019
Referral: 
COM(2018) 764 final
Rapporteur: 
Gerardo LARGHI (Workers - GR II / Italy)

A European standardisation system that functions well contributes to overall economic growth, supports innovation and global competitiveness of the European industry. It also helps to ensure that the levels of safety, health and consumer and environmental protection set out in Union legislation are met in practice. It also facilitates market access while contributing to a continuous deepening of the Single Market and providing the necessary legal certainty.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Harmonised standards: Enhancing transparency and legal certainty for a fully functioning Single Market

Annual Growth Survey 2019 (communication)

Adottati on 20/02/2019
Referenza: 
ECO/481-EESC-2018-05434
Referral: 
COM(2018) 770 final
Rapporteur: 
Anne DEMELENNE (Workers - GR II / Belgium)

The EESC welcomes the reforms aimed at increasing high-quality investment and productivity growth, inclusiveness and institutional quality, and to ensure macro-financial stability and sound public finances. The EESC also welcomes the recognition of the need for investment focused on education and training and the need to strengthen the EU’s social dimension. However, it remains to be specified how these objectives are to be achieved. The EESC underlines that progress is very slow and proposals often rather modest in areas where new policies have been proposed, including fair taxation, the banking union and the functioning of the euro area. Moreover, the EESC recognises the importance of addressing climate change but measures so far adopted remain insufficient.

 

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Annual Growth Survey 2019 (communication)

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)

Ensuring basic road freight connectivity after Brexit

Adottati on 20/02/2019
Referenza: 
TEN/690-EESC-2019
Referral: 
COM(2018) 895 final 2018/0436 COD
Rapporteur: 
Raymond HENCKS (Workers - GR II / Luxembourg)

The EESC supports the Commission's steps to ensure basic international HVG freight transport connectivity on a temporary basis between the Union and the United Kingdom.

The EESC welcomes the fact that the proposal for a regulation under examination grants UK road haulage operators the right, until 31/12/2019, to move freely within Union territory, in compliance with the common EU rules on access to the international haulage market, and provided that Union carriers can also move freely on UK territory under fair, equal and non-discriminatory conditions of competition.

Opinjoni tal-KESE: Ensuring basic road freight connectivity after Brexit

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)

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)

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