Getting Results on Poverty and the Social Pillar?
The European Commission’s
Autumn Package, adopted in November 2017, has left three priorities almost unchanged: Boosting investment, pursuing structural reforms, and ensuring responsible fiscal policies. The failure to mention poverty reduction raises questions about economic policies being adapted to ‘put social rights first’, or the EU continuing to rely on trickle-down measures to promote inclusion, despite evidence that this approach has failed. In this paper, the
European Anti-Poverty Network calls for five priorities for action: Ensure that macroeconomic policies are coherent with social rights; set out a roadmap with EU funding to implement the Social Pillar and reduce poverty; give equal weight to adequate minimum income and social protection, ensuring adequate financing; promote quality jobs, as part of integrated Active Inclusion approaches; and make Civil Society an equal partner in the Semester.
https://www.eapn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/EAPN-2018-EAPN-response-to-the-AGS-JER-FINAL-2814.pdf
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