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EU Social Summit
Ensure Security and Dignity for All Brussels (MOREL)- When EU leaders meet for the Porto Social Summit this weekend, they should show real commitment to the needs of European citizens facing hardship and precarious situations. Rather than expecting wonders from the failed workfare paradigm, they should embrace a new concept of social citizenship. It is time to move towards an unconditional guarantee of economic existence and dignity for all. Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) welcomes the Portuguese EU presidency’s focus on EU citizens’ social rights and protection across the Union. We appreciate the ambition of the European Commission to go beyond symbolic declarations and set measurable targets for the proposed Action Plan. The scope of the planned measures, however, is regrettably weak. The poverty reduction proposals are shamefully unambitious, especially since the Union failed to meet its poverty
EU leaders face demands to implement European Pillar of Social Rights when they meet in Porto for a ‘social summit’
At the two day meeting they will be asked to commit to quantitative targets in three areas: employment, skills and poverty.
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07 May 2021
EU leaders will face demands on Friday to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights when they meet in Porto for a ‘social summit’.
At the two day meeting they will be asked to commit to quantitative targets in three areas: employment, skills and poverty.
The aim is to raise the employment rate to 78 per cent, from 73 per cent before the COVID-19 pandemic; ensure that 60 per cent of adults engage in some kind of training every year and reduce by 15 million, the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
Oliver Röpke is the president of the Workers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
The proposal for a minimum wage directive currently under discussion is of key political importance. It is the Commission’s social policy flagship initiative, announced by President von der Leyen at the beginning of her term of office. The proposal is not free from controversy, as expected in such an important measure.
At its recent plenary session, the EESC backed with a broad majority a favourable opinion supporting it, but was nonetheless also witness to diverging views. However, with earlier doubts on the legal grounds for action cleared by the Council’s legal service, solutions can be found to avoid any negative interference with national collective bargaining systems.
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