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Second World Summit for Social Development

TA-10-2025-0231 · P10_TA(2025)0231 · PE772.196

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Parliament's resolution on the Second World Summit for Social Development calls for stronger EU action on social rights, poverty, and inequality ahead of the summit. It urges the Commission and member states to update the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, propose new social initiatives, and ensure fair green and digital transitions. The resolution stresses the need to combat poverty, child poverty, and housing exclusion, and to promote quality jobs, social dialogue, and equal pay. It calls for extending protections to platform and AI-affected workers, ensuring universal access to education and training, and supporting vulnerable groups. It urges the EU to lead globally on social development, support the UN summit's outcomes, and promote human rights and decent work worldwide.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission and member states to step up implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and update its Action Plan to achieve 2030 targets.
  2. Urges cooperation on a new European Social Deal for the Future with commitments to reduce poverty and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
  3. Stresses the importance of the three Copenhagen themes: poverty eradication, full and productive employment, and social inclusion.
  4. Calls for a quality jobs package, use of the Social Scoreboard, and measures to ensure upward social convergence and fairness in transitions.
  5. Urges fostering democracy at work, social dialogue, collective bargaining, equal pay, and gender mainstreaming across policies.
  6. Calls for stepped-up efforts to combat violence, discrimination, and harassment at work, and to address work-related psychological distress.
  7. Calls for an ambitious EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and an affordable housing plan, with sufficient funding in the next MFF.
  8. Urges member states to implement national action plans on the European Child Guarantee and ensure substantial budgetary resources.
  9. Emphasizes extending protections to AI-affected workers, introducing a right to disconnect, and creating sustainable quality jobs in the twin transition.
  10. Calls for universal access to quality public education, training, and an individual right to training and upskilling at EU level.
  11. Calls for support for young, old, and disabled people, and measures for regions facing depopulation, including access to services and infrastructure.
  12. Urges the EU to support the transition from informal to formal employment globally and to promote fair labour standards in external policies.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions and member states, which are urged to implement social policies and fund initiatives.
  • Workers, including those in platform and AI-affected sectors, who would gain protections and training rights.
  • Vulnerable groups such as children, people with disabilities, migrants, and minorities, who would benefit from anti-poverty and inclusion measures.
  • Social economy enterprises, which would receive strengthened support and cooperation frameworks.
  • Third countries and global actors, as the EU commits to supporting social development and human rights internationally.

Figures and deadlines

  • At least 15 million people at risk of poverty to be reduced by 2030, including 5 million children.
  • At least 78% employment rate for people aged 20-64 by 2030.
  • At least 60% of adults participating in training every year by 2030.
  • EUR 192 billion a year less in social investment than needed, as estimated by the Commission in 2020.