Social Agenda - EU economic policy in the making

Social Agenda n°40 highlights the 2015 European Semester, the EU economic governance process.

The European Semester is in full swing. The process is fast evolving and the focus is now on implementing the European Semester's main outcome, the country-specific recommendations, at local level.

Social partners have a key role to play in conceiving and implementing those recommendations: social investment is the key to a sustainable crisis exit and future prosperity.

Social Agenda n°40 also highlights

• the European Year for Development 2015 - an opportunity to improve labour rights and factory safety in developing countries' garment industry – and.
• the fact that most investment programmes co-funded by the EU in the field of employment and social inclusion have now been agreed and can get going..