Competitiveness and defence drive the 2025 Spring Package – Social Agenda Still Takes a Back Seat The European Commission announced the European Semester Spring Package 2025 on 4th June. The Package contains, among others: the Spring Package Communication, giving an overview of its main objectives and rationale; the Employment guidelines, guiding national employment policies; the Country…
On 3rd December 2024, SOLIDAR hosted its annual Social Europe Conference in the European Parliament, under the title Civil Society in the European Semester: Road to a more democratic and social cycle. It brought together 44 participants representing civil society organisations, social and solidarity economy actors, academia and EU institutions and bodies. It was co-hosted…
DRAGHI Report – is the future of Europe all about competitiveness? SOLIDAR sees more social justice in it The long-awaited report authored by Mario Draghi, the famous former European Central Bank President, is titled “EU competitiveness: Looking ahead” and was presented on 9th September 2024. It was requested by the European Commission and reflects his…
After months of negotiations, the EU adopted new rules for its economic governance framework. Regrettably, they will require countries to introduce significant budget cuts, leading to austerity measures and ultimately impeding the investments needed to implement a socially just transition. The EU’s economic governance framework, often seen as a technical and theoretical issue, is deeply…
May 7, 2024 At the end of April, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta launched a report on the future of the EU’s Single Market, with proposals that should shape the next EU mandate. The report stresses that a fair green and digital transition is a catalyst for a stronger European single market and reaffirms…
April 15, 2024 The citizens’ initiative urges the European Commission to implement a European wealth tax, creating a new revenue source for the European Union. This revenue would support European environmental and social policies, as well as development cooperation, with shared financing from Member States. It aims to fight climate change, inequality, and ensure shared…
Although intended to be an effective information-driven mechanism for monitoring and steering Member States’ public finances, the European Union’s economic governance framework has evolved into a complex structure of detailed rules and exceptions that, apart from a brief respite during the Covid-19 pandemic, remains based on an austerity-driven approach. This approach has forced Member States…
SOLIDAR at the Beyond Growth Conference 2023 – How to build a socio-ecological welfare state? What does it mean concretely to move towards a socio-ecological state? What social and fiscal policies are needed? And how can it guarantee all the elements necessary to a good life in sustainable economic systems? On 15 May 2023, SOLIDAR’s…
As political leaders gather for a second conference at the European Parliament on how to move “beyond growth”, over 400 academics and civil society organisations, including SOLIDAR, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation. There is no empirical basis indicating…
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