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European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025

TA-10-2025-0032 · P10_TA(2025)0032 · PE766.649

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This resolution sets out Parliament's employment and social priorities for the 2025 European Semester, calling for stronger implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its 2030 targets. It urges action on poverty, housing, skills, labour shortages, social convergence, and the social impacts of transitions, and calls for new EU strategies and funds.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission and Council to strengthen implementation of the EPSR and ensure the 2026 Joint Employment Report analyses all its principles.
  2. Stresses using the Social Scoreboard and Social Convergence Framework to track progress and identify risks to social convergence.
  3. Regrets lack of data on wealth inequality; notes top 10% held 56% of wealth in Q4 2023.
  4. Calls for investment in skills, vocational training, and measures to address labour shortages, including better recognition of qualifications and EURES analysis.
  5. Urges support for youth, persons with disabilities, and Roma, including reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and updating the EU Disability Strategy.
  6. Calls for housing affordability recommendations in the European Semester and an EU strategy to end homelessness by 2030.
  7. Calls for an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, a deinstitutionalisation action plan, and a mental health action plan.
  8. Calls for action on loneliness, long-term care, and support for informal carers.
  9. Calls for a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the Child Guarantee and for Member States to allocate at least 5% of ESF+ funds to fight child poverty.
  10. Calls for decent working conditions, work-life balance, right to disconnect, and equal pay, and for policies to address demographic challenges.
  11. Calls for reducing administrative burdens for SMEs, competitiveness checks on legislation, and support for the social economy.
  12. Calls for monitoring restructuring, addressing the automotive sector crisis, and revising the MIP Scoreboard to retain social indicators.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions (Commission, Council) and Member States, which are urged to implement policies and strategies.
  • Workers, including self-employed, informal carers, and those in non-standard employment, who would gain from better protections.
  • Vulnerable groups: children, Roma, persons with disabilities, homeless people, and those at risk of poverty.
  • SMEs and social economy enterprises, which would benefit from reduced burdens and support.

Figures and deadlines

  • 78% employment target for people aged 20-64 by 2030.
  • 75.3% EU employment rate in 2025 autumn forecast.
  • At least 15 million reduction in people at risk of poverty by 2030, including 5 million children.
  • EUR 11 billion per year needed to meet 2030 Barcelona targets for early childhood education and care.
  • 1.4 million people residing in institutions in the EU.
  • 70% of workers in good-quality jobs, 30% in high-strain jobs.
  • 44 million Europeans are frequent informal long-term caregivers.
  • 94.6 million people in the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2023.

Legal basis: Article 3 TEU; Articles 9, 121, 148 and 149 TFEU