The Future of the EU: Benefits to citizens and respect for European values (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Romanian Presidency) - Related Opinions
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Adotados on 18/10/2018
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SOC/589-EESC-2018Referral:
COM(2018) 269 final Rapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Adam ROGALEWSKI (Poland)
Adotados on 17/10/2018
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ECO/456-EESC-2018-01695-00-00Referral:
COM(2018) 97 final Rapporteur:
Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ (Spain)
The EESC supports the Commission's Action Plan on financing sustainable growth, aimed at reorienting capital flows towards sustainable investment, and welcomes the legislative proposals stemming from it, on fiduciary duties, a taxonomy and benchmarks. The proposed gradual approach for its implementation, beginning with the work on a European sustainability taxonomy, is preferable. However, a subsequent extension of the initial taxonomy, based on environmental aspects, to social sustainability and governance goals will be necessary. Attention should be paid to the feasibility and proportionality of legal obligations.
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Adotados on 17/10/2018
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SOC/597-EESC-2018-02962-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2018) 382 final 2018/0206 CODCOM(2018) 382 final 2018/0206 CODCOM(2018) 382 final 2018/0206 CODRapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
The EESC welcomes the proposal for the ESF+ to improve merge funds and simplify procedures, but is critical of a financial cut in EU cohesion policy, and, as regards the ESF+, of the 6% decrease of the funding allocated to it. It calls for 30% of total resources for economic, social and territorial cohesion policies to be allocated to the ESF+ and for 30% of the ESF+ resources to be earmarked for social inclusion measures.
Adotados on 17/10/2018
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ECO/461-EESC-2018-02791Rapporteur:
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.
Adotados on 17/10/2018
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ECO/462-EESC-2018-03269Referral:
COM(2018) 372 final 2018/0197 CODCOM(2018) 372 final 2018/0197 CODCOM(2018) 372 final 2018/0197 CODRapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Ester VITALE (Italy)
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.
Adotados on 17/10/2018
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SOC/602-EESC-2018-03863-00-00-AC-TRARapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Imse SPRAGG NILSSON (Sweden)
Adotados on 19/09/2018
Referência:
ECO/460-EESC-2018-02072-00-00Referral:
COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 326 final 2018/0131 NLECOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 328 final 2018/0133 NLERapporteur:
Europeans need more (and better) Europe. The powers and financial resources currently allocated to the EU have been increasingly misaligned with the concerns and expectations of Europeans. The EESC, in accordance with the European Parliament's position, therefore proposes that the expenditure and revenue figure reach 1.3% of GNI. The proposed level of commitments of 1.11% of the EU's GNI is too modest to credibly deliver on the political agenda of the EU.
The EESC recognises the high European added value of the programmes where the MFF 2021-2027 concentrates the main increases in expenditure. However, the Committee questions the fact that these increases are made at the cost of strong cuts in cohesion policy (-10%) and the Common Agricultural Policy – CAP (-15%).
Adotados on 18/04/2018
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ECO/446-EESC-2017-05489-00-00-ac-traReferral:
COM(2017) 821 final COM(2017) 822 final COM(2017) 823 final COM(2017) 824 final 2017/0335 CNSCOM(2017) 827 final 2017/0333 APPCOM(2017) 827 final 2017/0333 APPRapporteur:
Mihai IVAŞCU (Romania)
Co-rapporteur:
The EESC appreciates the proposed roadmap for completing the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) but its support is not full and enthusiastic, since a number of social, political and economic issues, highlighted in our previous opinions, were not taken into consideration. The completion of the EMU requires first of all strong political commitment, efficient governance and better use of the available finances, in order to actually cope with both risk reduction and risk sharing among Member States. For these reasons the EESC underlines that the principles of responsibility and solidarity at EU level should go hand in hand.
Adotados on 18/04/2018
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ECO/457-EESC-2018-00927-00-00-ac-traRapporteur:
Anne DEMELENNE (Belgium)
Making a reality of the European Pillar of Social Rights (the "Social Pillar") will require improvements in Member States and a robust budgetary base, investment and current spending.
More public investment within Member States can be facilitated by reference to a Golden Rule for public investment with a social objective, which would allow more flexibility in budget rules with a view to achieving the aims of the European Pillar of Social Rights. More public investment can also be supported by the use of existing EU instruments, especially the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs), and by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). This support should explicitly include objectives linked to the Social Pillar.
Appropriate taxation policies, including effective fight against tax fraud, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning, should allow Member States and the EU to raise additional means to contribute to the financing of the Social Pillar.
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