On social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights
B-10-2025-0152
on behalf of the ECR Group · Rapporteur: Elena Donazzan
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This resolution addresses social and employment aspects of restructuring, urging the EU to protect jobs and workers' rights by improving competitiveness and reducing regulatory burdens.¶¶¶ It calls for assessing or revising Green Deal policies, reversing the 2035 combustion engine ban, and revising 2025 CO2 targets to prevent deindustrialisation and job losses.¶¶ It emphasizes supporting skills development, education, and lifelong learning to address workforce shortages and ease transitions.¶¶
Key points
- Calls for improving the business environment for SMEs and strategic industries, with investments in infrastructure, especially in rural areas and regions under Article 174 TFEU.¶
- Urges the Commission to assess Green Deal policies and decide on revision or suspension to improve competitiveness and prevent deindustrialisation.¶
- Requests an impact assessment of Green Deal policies' social effects, in cooperation with social partners, and action against industrial and social 'desertification'.¶
- Calls for measures to support companies and enhance cross-sectoral skills to address the occupational crisis and avoid job losses.¶
- Highlights the need for competitive transformation costs and reduced regulatory burden, following Draghi report recommendations to keep automotive leadership.¶
- Calls for competitiveness checks on every new legislative proposal.¶
- Stresses the importance of education, vocational training, and lifelong learning for a skilled workforce, with industry involvement in programme planning.¶
- Calls on the Commission to reverse the decision to ban combustion engine vehicles as of 2035.¶
- Calls for a safeguard clause to revise 2025 CO2 emission targets, as many companies may not meet deadlines, risking layoffs.¶
Who is affected
- EU industry, particularly SMEs and the automotive sector, which face competitive disadvantages and regulatory burdens.¶¶¶
- Workers in the EU, who may face job losses and skills crises due to restructuring and deindustrialisation.¶¶
- Rural populations and regions covered by Article 174 TFEU, needing infrastructure investment to prevent depopulation.¶¶