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Towards a greener and more digital Europe.

The #EuropeanSemester economic and political package aims to:

➡️ Steer 🇪🇺 economies towards a fairer and inclusive growth
➡️ Advance green and digital transition
➡️ Reinforce 🇪🇺 economy resilience against unexpected shocks
Today’s Autumn Package is further interconnected with the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

It will have a central role in building a resilient economy that puts fairness at its heart.

#EuropeanSemester
An active labour market is key to overcoming the negative impacts of the pandemic.

Investing in skills and better working conditions will reduce the labour shortage.

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Portugal’s government crisis is an interesting case for the interplay between domestic politics (on.ft.com/3EjJjas), the #EuropeanSemester draft budget plans and #NextGenEU more broadly.

Why? The national parliament is quite powerful in Economic Governance. A thread. 1/10
The “strength” of the 🇵🇹 parliament in the budget process itself is modest. Still it is not completely powerless like France or Ireland:
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Portugal had struggles over budgets in the Eurocrisis, internally and with the EU institutions, partly because its parliament is active in EU affairs. Examples are from 2011 and 2017:
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1/11 In a new article with Mark Dawson published in @RegGov_journal, we argue that the #EU's current approach to accountability reflects a regulatory bias towards the process of decision-making and interest mediation. 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
2/11 But the #EU is more than a regulatory state. We introduce the concept of the ‘para-regulatory state’ to describe increasing EU regulation in areas of core state powers that are both redistributive and politicized, e.g. fiscal policy, border control, police, public admin etc.
3/11 In these areas, we contend that the #EU requires a substantive notion of accountability, focused on the merit of policy decisions and their likely impact.
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12pm(UK) Wed 21 October -What might aspects of #EuropeanSemester and #EU #competition policy tell us about Member State-EU interaction in a #EuropeanHealthUnion? Join us at Health in Europe to find out, or request paper/ presentation recording - m.guy2@lancaster.ac.uk (1/3)
Paper also linked here (2/3)cambridge.org/core/journals/…
And the provision - Article 168(7) TFEU - is here (if you want to join in with the language query!) (3/3)
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
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The #EuropeanSemester analyses key socio-economic challenges of each EU country. 🇪🇺
For the first time, we assess the progress towards the @UN sustainable development goals and identify priorities for support by the Just Transition Fund.
#GlobalGoals #EUGreenDeal European Semester 2020
@UN @VDombrovskis @NicolasSchmitEU @PaoloGentiloni @MartaWieczore20 @ecfin @EU_Social The assessment focuses on four key areas:
✅ Environmental sustainability
✅ Productivity gains
✅ Fairness
✅ Macroeconomic stability

Find a report for each EU country ↓ europa.eu/!jq44hV
#EuropeanSemester Country reports
@UN @VDombrovskis @NicolasSchmitEU @PaoloGentiloni @MartaWieczore20 @ecfin @EU_Social Imbalances in the EU are receding but EU countries should continue reforms to make our economy future-proof.
We need to step up our fight for more equality and make the right investments towards a sustainable & inclusive economy.
More → europa.eu/!fm96Tp
#EuropeanSemester Sustainable growth strategy
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