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Objective 2024: better living and working conditions for all europeans
This series is a cooperation between the Jacques Delors Institutes in Berlin and Paris and makes concrete proposals for the EU’s next institutional cycle.
1- Energy (Thomas Pellerin-Carlin et al.)
2- Eurozone (Lucas Guttenberg)
3- Trade (Elvire Fabry)
4- Foreign and security policy (Nicole Koenig)
5- Digital (Paul-Jasper Dittrich)
6- Democracy (Thierry Chopin)
7- Migration (Lucas Rasche)
8- Employment and social policy (Sofia Fernandes)
Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen has called for a “fairer and more equal Europe”. This political priority is justified not only for normative or functional reasons, but also for political ones. In a context of rising Euroscepticism, the EU must live up to citizens’ expectations and improve their living and working conditions. To that purpose, the new Commission should adopt a Social Action Plan for the next five years to turn into concrete initiatives the 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed two years ago. This Plan should include five key priorities: i) Re-launching the European ‘convergence machine’; ii) Investing in human capital and tackling inequalities; iii) Ensuring a fair transition to a digital and low-carbon economy; iv) Striving for more social equality and tax justice; v) Ensuring fair mobility of workers. In its strategy to reinforce the social dimension of the EU project, the next Commission should envisage the possibility of a differentiated social integration. If it is not possible to move forward with all EU countries, enhanced cooperation may be a better solution than inaction.
Translation from french: Nicolas Köhler
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WEBINAR | The day after the European Commission’s Post-Covid economic recovery proposal
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Académie Notre Europe n°5 – Social Europe and Budget
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Barcelona, 25 October 2019 – Sovereignty, inequalities and social Europe
Webinar 1 – The Green Deal & Energy Innovation : what should the new European Commission do during its first 100 days in office?
Paris, 9 October 2019 – The 2020s European Union
Ludwigsfelde, 2 October 2019 – Citizen dialogue and Trilateral Experts seminar on Social Europe
Paris, 5 September 2019 – Global Convergences Forum
Paris, 21 May 2019 – Europe: which answers to the Digital economy’s social challenges?
Argenteuil, 11 mai 2019 — Europe and fraternity
Paris, 6 April 2019 — Social justice in the energy transition in Europe
Paris, 5 April 2019 – European elections: what stakes for disability?
Training on European issues
Bruxelles, 21 February 2019 – Expert Debate on the European Pillar of Social Rights
Paris, 18 December 2018 – Social Europe
Paris, 11 January 2019 – Académie Notre Europe: Social Europe
Paris, 20 November 2018 – How to accompany the low-carbon transition to be fair?
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 14 November 2018 – What is Europe doing to protect us? Trade Policy, Social Europe, Environment and Security
Paris, 24 October 2018 – Companies: missions and reasons to be
Dardilly, 10 October 2018 – What future for social Europe?
Brussels, 3 October 2018 – Europe needs a social pact for the energy transition
Paris, 3 October 2018 – Is European solidarity still possible?
Paris, 24 September 2018 – European social dialogue: what future?
Bruges, 12 July 2018 – Just a transition or a just transition? Jobs, skills, energy poverty
Luxembourg, 20 June 2018 – The reform of the EMU: which social dimension?
Paris, 17 May 2018 – France and the European Pillar of Social Rights
Toulouse, 17 April 2018 – A protective Social Europe : myth or reality?
Tours, 4 April 2018 – Toward a Social and Political Europe?
Angers, 29 March 2018 – From the Treaty of Rome to today
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Créteil, 28 September 2017 – Social Europe: utopia or reality?
Paris, 28 September 2017 – What future for a Social Europe?
Brussels, 17 July 2017 – A political Commission: innovation and delivery
Brussels, 10 July 2017 – Guaranteeing solidarity in EU Cohesion policy post-2020
Prague, 8 June 2017 – Hamonization of EU social standards
Rome, 20 March 2017 – Completing economic governance and enhancing social cohesion