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  • Adotados on 19/06/2019 - Bureau decision date: 11/12/2018
    Referência
    ECO/486-EESC-2019-01-01-00069-00-00
    (Czech Republic
    Workers - GR II
    Spain

    The EESC welcomes the Investment Plan for Europe for its contribution to the promotion of investment in the EU. The Committee calls for clearly set investment targets, regulatory simplification and further guidance in order to achieve greater geographical and sectoral balance. The EESC advocates for strengthened financial capacity for the InvestEU programme within the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 and calls for more efforts to raise awareness among European businesses and citizens about the benefits obtained from the Investment Plan for Europe.

    EESC opinion: Investment Plan for Europe: stock-taking and next steps
  • Adotados on 20/03/2019 - Bureau decision date: 16/10/2018
    Referência
    SC/52-EESC-2018-01-01-5821
    (Romania
    (France

    The opinion tables proposals on how to enhance the European project and bring it closer to its citizens.

    EESC opinion: The Future of the EU: Benefits to citizens and respect for European values (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Romanian Presidency)
  • Adotados on 20/02/2019 - Bureau decision date: 18/09/2018
    Referência
    ECO/481-EESC-2018-01-01-05434
    (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.

     

    EESC opinion: Annual Growth Survey 2019 (communication)
  • Adotados on 23/01/2019 - Bureau decision date: 16/10/2018
    Referência
    ECO/485-EESC-2018-01-01-05763-00-00-AC-TRA
    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.

    EESC opinion: Euro area economic policy (2019)
  • Adotados on 17/10/2018 - Bureau decision date: 22/05/2018
    Referência
    ECO/473-EESC-2018-01-01-3003-00-00-AC-TRA
    Workers - GR II
    Malta
    (United Kingdom

    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.

     

    EESC opinion: European Investment Stabilisation Function
  • Adotados on 17/10/2018 - Bureau decision date: 22/05/2018
    Referência
    ECO/475-EESC-2018-01-01-02936-00-00
    Workers - GR II
    Spain

    The EESC agrees with the aims of the Council Recommendation and with some of its proposals. However, it expresses its disagreement with the proposal for the aggregate fiscal stance of the euro area to be neutral, as well as with the way that the recommendation on salaries is formulated.

     

    EESC opinion: Euro area economic policy 2018 (additional opinion)
  • Adotados on 17/10/2018 - Bureau decision date: 22/05/2018
    Referência
    ECO/461-EESC-2018-01-01-02791
    Employers - GR I
    Malta

    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.

    EESC opinion: Common Provisions Regulation 2021-2027
  • Adotados on 17/10/2018 - Bureau decision date: 22/05/2018
    Referência
    ECO/472-EESC-2018-01-01-3054
    (Czech Republic

    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.

     

    EESC opinion: Reform Support Programme
  • Adotados on 17/10/2018 - Bureau decision date: 22/05/2018
    Referência
    ECO/474-EESC-2018-01-01-3065
    (Czech Republic

    The EESC welcomes the fact that the package of regulations on the future multiannual financial framework includes the InvestEU proposal to strengthen investment activity in the EU, including long-term investment projects that are of high public interest, while also respecting the sustainable development criteria. In order to guarantee that this programme operates successfully, the Committee underlines the importance of the involvement of civil society organisations and social and economic partners. The EESC appreciates the European Commission's efforts to create an umbrella financial instrument by the InvestEU programme that will result in unified management, enhanced transparency and potential for synergies. The EESC appreciates the fact that, in addition to promoting sustainable infrastructure, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and research and innovation, the InvestEU programme also focuses on social investment and skills.

     

     

    EESC opinion: InvestEU
  • Adotados on 14/03/2018 - Bureau decision date: 17/10/2017
    Referência
    ECO/443-EESC-2017-01-01-05496-00-00-ac-tra
    (Spain
    (Belgium

    The EESC welcomes the new set of measures proposed by the European Commission to complete the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and move towards an optimal monetary zone. The EESC supports the various proposed goals for reinforcing the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM). The EESC welcomes that the present communication provides scope for a broader discussion and for a phased approach to implementing the European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) and underlines the importance not to lose momentum in implementing the Banking Union. Finally, the EESC reiterates its commitment to a diverse financial ecosystem in which the large pan-European players coexist with small and medium-sized banks and other non-banking entities that focus reliably on the financing of the real economy on an equal footing, in an environment of much reduced systemic risk.

     

    EESC opinion: Completing the Banking Union (communication)