Social Platform Position Paper on the Mid-term Review of Europe 2020

HOW TO PUT THE EU BACK ON TRACK TO REACH THE SOCIAL OBJECTIVES OF THE EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY

Adopted by the Steering Group on June 24, 2014.

KEY MESSAGES

  1. Ensuring consistency of policies and transparent processes

Review the architecture of Europe 2020 and the Semester process to ensure the policies and actions implemented under the strategy are consistent with all its objectives, and to ensure its legitimacy through more transparency.

  1. Ensuring progress on the social targets

Reduce poverty and social exclusion, inequalities and unemployment, increase quality employment and improve educational attainment under Europe 2020, in order to put the well-being of all people back at the centre of the strategy.

  1. Ensuring meaningful and structured stakeholder involvement

Open up the decision making processes to social NGOs ready to play their role in their areas of expertise, in developing policies and in the implementation of the economic and social priorities of the EU.

 

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