by Marco_Cilento | Dec 19, 2024 | Economic&Social Governance of the EU, Investments, Semester News
The ETUC supports the creation of an EU Investment Facility financed and deployed at the EU level. Adopted at the Executive Committee meeting of 10-11 December 2024. English version: An EU-financed Investment Facility for quality jobs and just transitions | ETUC...
by Marco_Cilento | Dec 19, 2024 | Economic&Social Governance of the EU, No-Austerity, Semester News
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...
by Marco_Cilento | Dec 19, 2024 | Economic&Social Governance of the EU, No-Austerity, Semester News
The Autumn package (first part) is devoted to fiscal surveillance, namely: fiscal trajectories under the Mid-Term Fiscal Structural Plans – Preventive arm Watch at the net expenditure path and its impact on structural primary deficit and potential output. Cost...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | No-Austerity
The European trade movement showed a common interest in advocating fairer wealth distribution and more progressive taxation schemes as tools to fight inequality and bring about social justice. We have identified as main loopholes in the current taxation setting...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | Investments
Skills and education. The ETUC members consider investment in skills to be a heavily financed priority (64 responses, of which 26 are the top priority). Resources should be allocated towards skill development and lifelong learning opportunities to equip individuals...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | Investments
This box draws attention to the fact that a just transition is not happening, especially in Central and Eastern European Countries, which sets an urgent challenge to social convergence. Country-specific recommendations miss the huge gaps between member states. If the...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | No-Austerity, Semester News
Quote from Brussels, 02/10/2024 (Agence Europe) Observing the budgetary performance of the Member States in relation to the macroeconomic situation in 2023, the European board notes that, overall, the public deficit has not decreased between 2022 and 2023 despite the...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | Investments, No-Austerity
The plans are the cornerstone of the EU economic governance framework. They set out the Member State’s fiscal path as well as priority public investments and reforms for four or five years depending on their regular length of the respective legislative term. All plans...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | No-Austerity, Semester News
Have access to TU inputs country-by-country or economic sectors here: Tuslo survey Each link directs the reader to a web page that includes: Country and name of the organisation that submitted the input. Trade union inputs can be submitted by National ETUC members,...
by Marco_Cilento | Oct 31, 2024 | Semester News, TU involvement
Read the full text of the Joint statement by the ETUC, SGI Europe and SME United, calling for a factual and material involvement of social partners in the economic governance and the EU Semester here: Social Partners call for better involvement in Economic Governance...
