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