The Autumn Package incudes tools for the policy coordination, including social common objectives and social CSRs implementation.
To be watched:
- Progresses toward the Porto targets on employment, access to education/training and poverty – Joint Employment Report
- Upward convergence/divergence of Member States – Social Convergence framework (in the JER)
- 10 countries under in/depth review to fail the upward social convergence: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Italy, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Romania.
- Social vs. competitiveness under the Recommendations to the Euro Area
Key documents:
2025 European Semester: Proposal for a Joint Employment Report (and its annexes) / the JER includes the first phase of the social convergence framework 2025.
2025 European Semester: Recommendation for the euro area
Good reading: 2025 European Semester: Autumn package – Communication