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  • How to address the loss of purchasing power and the risk of rising inequalities, exclusion and marginalization

    Adottati on 19/06/2025 - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2024
    Referenza
    SOC/823-EESC-2025
    Rapporteur
    Maria del Carmen BARRERA CHAMORRO
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    597
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    In this opinion, the EESC is presenting several recommendations to mitigate the effects of the cost-of -living crisis. These include:

    • investment in people and the economy, fair taxation, quality and affordable public services and  targeted support for the most vulnerable;
    • short- and long-term industrial policy and efforts to boost competitiveness;
    • stronger use of social dialogue, collective bargaining, and civil dialogue to address labour market challenges;
    • wage and minimum wage increase as way of protection;
    • more investments in  education as a powerful preventive tool against exclusion, marginalisation, and inequality
    • Record of proceedings SOC/823
    • Follow-up from the Commission SOC/823
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  • What ways and means for a real strategic autonomy of the EU in the economic field?

    Published in
    Study
    83 pages

    Study of the EESC Employers' Group together with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) – final report

  • Crisis costs for European SMEs

    Published in
    Study
    158 pages

    How COVID-19 changed the playing field for European SMEs

    The objective of this study is to develop a systematic classification of COVID-19 (and international crisis)-related impacts on SMEs.

  • Temporary airport slot relief due to COVID-19

    Adottati on 22/09/2022 - Bureau decision date: 20/09/2022
    Referenza
    TEN/787-EESC-2022
    Referral
    COM(2022) 334 final 2022/0214 COD
    General Rapporteur
    Thomas KROPP
    Employers - GR I
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  • Speech by President Séamus BOLAND, EESC plenary debate with with Valdis Dombrovskis

    Debate on Recovery & Resilience, linked to the adoption of the EESC resolution "Involvement of Organised Civil Society in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans – How can we improve it?"

    Sustainable development

  • Evelyn Regner: the liberal professions are an essential part of our society

    On 10 May, the vice-president of the European Parliament Evelyn Regner took part in the European Day of the Liberal Professions 2022, which was hosted by the Liberal Professions Category of the EESC. She spoke during the opening session of the annual conference, which focused on the topic of Liberal Professions: Lessons Learned and Challenges ahead. Various civil society and other institutional representatives participated in the event.

  • European Day of the Liberal Professions 2022

    Liberal Professions: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
    Event type
    Conference

    Location

    EESC, JDE51 | 10:30-17:00 | Hybrid event
    Brussels
    Belgium

  • The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on fundamental rights and civic space

    Published in
    Study
    76 pages

    This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) across Europe. It also focuses on how solutions implemented in individual EU Member States have impacted CSOs' ability to exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms.

  • Speech on 'The impact of COVID-19 on fundamental rights and the rule of law across the EU and the future of democracy' by Séamus Boland

    EESC plenary debate with Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, linked to the opinion SOC/691

    Fundamental and Citizens Rights

  • The role of civil society organisations as guardians of the common good in the post-pandemic recovery

    Location

    Interactio and Room JDE 60, EESC building, Rue Belliard 99, 1040
    Brussels
    Belgium

    In the context of the own-initiative opinion on ''The role of civil society organisations as guardians of the common good in the post-pandemic recovery'', the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is organising a remote public hearing on Monday 28 March 2022.

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