The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe.
Find out more about its role and structure at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/about
Het EESC brengt per jaar 160 à 190 adviezen en informatieve rapporten uit.
Ook organiseert het elk jaar diverse evenementen rond het maatschappelijk middenveld en de participatie van burgers, zoals de uitreiking van de prijs voor het maatschappelijk middenveld, de dagen van het maatschappelijk middenveld, Jouw Europa, jouw mening, de jongerenzitting en de EBI-dag.
De meest recente EESC-adviezen en -publicaties http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/our-work/opinions-information-reports/opinions, http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/our-work/publications-other-work/publications.
Het EESC is actief op een groot aantal gebieden, variërend van sociale zaken tot economie, energie en duurzaamheid.
Hieronder volgt meer informatie over waar wij ons mee bezig houden en waar wij extra aandacht aan besteden http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/policies
Het EESC houdt negen zittingen per jaar. Ook organiseert het tal van conferenties, openbare hoorzittingen en discussies die verband houden met zijn activiteiten.
Lees meer over komende evenementen http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/agenda/our-events/upcoming-events
Hier vindt u nieuws en informatie over het EESC, zoals zijn socialemedia-accounts, EESC Info, foto’s en video’s.
Lees de meest recente nieuws- en persberichten van het EESC http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/news-media/news, http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/news-media/press-releases
Het EESC bestaat uit vertegenwoordigers van allerhande maatschappelijke organisaties, die onafhankelijk advies uitbrengen over EU-beleid en -wetgeving. De 350 EESC-leden zijn opgedeeld in drie groepen, namelijk Werkgevers, Werknemers en Diverse Werkzaamheden.
Meer informatie over de leden en de groepen http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/members-groups
Het EESC telt zes afdelingen die zich bezighouden met specifieke kwesties die van belang zijn voor de burgers van de Europese Unie, gaande van sociale en economische zaken tot energie, milieu, externe betrekkingen en de interne markt.
Meer informatie http://www.eesc.europa.eu/nl/sections-other-bodies
The opinion tables proposals on how to enhance the European project and bring it closer to its citizens.
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.
The EESC welcomes and endorses the rationale behind the establishment of the Reform Support Programme. However, the EESC believes that, in order to launch the programme successfully and obtain the expected benefits, better responses are needed to a number of still open questions.
The EESC strongly rejects the Commission's proposal to cut the EU's budget by 10% in real terms and urges the Member States (MS) to find solutions that allow this budget to be kept at the same level as the 2014-2020 programming period.
The EESC considers the proposed European Investment Stabilisation Function (EISF) as a step towards closer euro area integration, and possibly an attempt to encourage non-euro Member States to join the single currency. However, the EESC is of the view that a well-crafted union-wide insurance scheme that acts as an automatic stabiliser amidst macroeconomic shocks would be more effective than the proposed EISF.
The EESC considers the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) as pivotal factors to achieve sustainable development in the EU and therefore strongly regrets the cut of 12% in the ERDF and 46% in the CF.
The European Year of Cultural Heritage is an excellent opportunity to understand how Europe’s rural cultural heritage is a prized asset which needs to be showcased alongside our urban heritage. The EESC opinion on the "Contribution of Europe’s Rural Areas to the 2018 Year of Cultural Heritage" will consider what measures are necessary to ensure sustainability of landscapes, habitats, species and human imprints. It will look at how to ensure initiatives that will add today's creativity to our heritage and improve co-operation between the rural and the urban, not least through promoting rural cultural tourism.
The EESC notes that although economic recovery in the euro area has gathered pace since last year, it remains incomplete and atypical. It disagrees with the European Commission's proposal for an overall broadly neutral fiscal stance and instead proposes a positive fiscal stance of around 0.5% of GDP. It welcomes structural reforms that will not only increase productivity and growth potential, but also support the creation of quality jobs and reduce inequality. It supports the necessary steps for deepening the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), as well as the measures against tax fraud and tax avoidance.