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  • Prijaté on 15/07/2020 - Bureau decision date: 09/06/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/523-EESC-2020-02886-00-00-AC-TRA

    The EESC strongly supports the Commission's proposal – Next Generation EU – as a specific tool for a quick and effective recovery.

    The EESC takes a very positive view of the Commission's two main decisions:

    1. to introduce an extraordinary financial recovery instrument as part of the multiannual financial framework
    2. to raise common debt, which will be repaid over a long period of time, and prevent the extraordinary financial burden from falling directly on the Member States in the short run.

    The EESC strongly welcomes the fact that the newly proposed instrument should be closely coordinated with the European Semester process, and furthermore welcomes the Commission's proposal to introduce additional genuine own resources based on different taxes (revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System, digital taxation, large companies' revenues).

    EESC opinion: Recovery plan for Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027
  • Prijaté on 15/07/2020 - Bureau decision date: 20/02/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/509-EESC-2020-00995-00-00-AC-TRA
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy

    While acknowledging the progress made by the Commission in taking account of smaller and less complex banking institutions in its recent regulatory measures, the EESC believes it would be useful to further increase the proportionality of banking rules, without sacrificing the effectiveness of prudential rules.

    The EESC endorses the recent decision to push back the date for implementing the Basel III accord, and feels that when the time comes, the new provision on capital requirements should be transposed in a way that caters properly for the diversity of banking business models in Europe.

    EESC opinion: Inclusive and sustainable Banking Union
  • Prijaté on 15/07/2020 - Bureau decision date: 20/02/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/513-EESC-2020-01-01
    Workers - GR II
    Malta

    While the recovery after COVID-19 crisis is a top priority, the EESC stresses that this should not steer the EU away from its medium and long-term objectives, as outlined in the European Green Deal, 2020 Sustainable Growth Strategy, and the European Pillar for Social Rights. There is a need for a resilient, technology-driven European economy that is defined by the protection of the environment. The EESC underlines that strategies aimed at enhanced economic sustainability need to be developed around productivity, but they cannot be allowed to happen at the expense of workers' rights and social development. The EESC advocates for re-thinking supply chains, underlines that social aspects should be emphasised, start-ups should be encouraged and that the cornerstone of sustainable economic growth in the EU should be the creation and development of a truly circular economy. Open dialogue with social partners and civil society remains key to setting the economic direction.

    EESC opinion: Enhancing sustainable economic growth across the EU
  • Prijaté on 10/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 14/05/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/519-EESC-2020-02336
    Workers - GR II
    EESC opinion: Postponement of taxation rules due to the COVID-19 crisis
  • Prijaté on 10/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 30/04/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/518-EESC-2020-02226_00_00_AC_TRA
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    EESC opinion: Covid-19 crisis response - adjustments in banking prudential rules
  • Prijaté on 10/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/505-EESC-2020-2020-00463-00-00-TRA
    (Spain
    (Czech Republic

    The coronavirus outbreak will have a deep and negative impact on the achievement of the SDGs and the objectives of the European Green Deal. For this reason, the EESC insists on the need to face this urgent threat as soon as possible and focus our recovery efforts without undue delay on the SDGs and the Green Deal. The Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) is the first comprehensive policy measure to fulfil very ambitious targets of carbon neutrality until 2050 in line with the EU Green Deal. While saluting the Green Deal's ambitions, the EESC regrets the lack of consistency with the budgetary allocation within the next Multiannual Financial Framework and also expresses its doubts about the effectiveness of climate mainstreaming in all EU programmes and calls on the Member States to involve civil society organisations in pushing for climate-proof EU spending.

    EESC opinion: European Green Deal Investment Plan
  • Prijaté on 04/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 04/06/2020
    Referenčné dokumenty
    ECO/524-EESC-2020-02767-00-01-PAC-TRA

     

      EESC opinion: REACT-EU
    • Prijaté on 19/02/2020 - Bureau decision date: 29/10/2019
      Referenčné dokumenty
      ECO/503-EESC-2019-01-01-04990
      (Czech Republic

      The EESC is concerned to note the euro area's economic downturn and the gradual end to a fall in unemployment, wedded to the persistent higher incidence of risk factors affecting economic performance. It is the European Green Deal that the EESC sees as the backbone of the future EU and euro-area economic configuration – the potential start of a fundamental change and a turning point. If managed successfully, it could move Europe up a gear economically and socially; if not, its failure could fatally jeopardise the integrity of the EU.

      EESC opinion: Euro area economic policy 2020
    • Prijaté on 30/10/2019 - Bureau decision date: 14/05/2019
      Referenčné dokumenty
      ECO/497-EESC-2019-01-01
      (Czech Republic
      EESC opinion: Euro area economic policy 2019 (additional opinion)
    • Prijaté on 30/10/2019 - Bureau decision date: 14/05/2019
      Referenčné dokumenty
      ECO/498-EESC-2019
      (Belgium

      This additional opinion complements and updates the proposals made in the yearly EESC AGS opinion. The EESC welcomes country-specific recommendations focus on investment and underlines that special attention must be paid to productive investments and investment in social infrastructure to prioritise sustainable growth. Next year's cycle should contain more CSRs to combat the existential threat of climate change. Investment would also be needed to enable the implementation of the social pillar to prevent an increase of social, economic, and environmental inequality. Taxation should favour this type of investment.

      EESC opinion: Annual Growth Survey 2019 (additional opinion)