Transcript European platform against poverty

Europe 2020 Strategy
Cordoba, 2010
Claudio Spadon
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The crisis has wiped out recent
progress
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GDP growth: -4% in 2009, worst since the 1930s
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Industrial production: -20% with the crisis, back to the
1990s
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Unemployment levels:
 23 million people
 7 million more unemployed in 20 months
 expected to reach 10.3% in 2010 (back to 1990s level)
 youth unemployment over 21%
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EU after the crisis
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Europe’s structural weaknesses have been exposed:
lower growth potential, productivity gap, high and rising
unemployment, ageing, poverty
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Global challenges intensify: competition from developed
and emerging economies, global finance, climate change and
pressure on resources
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Lessons from Lisbon Strategy
- Concrete results before crisis
- Partnership EU & Member States
- « Lisbonisation » of structural funds
... but:
- Uneven progress between Member States
- Key targets (R&D, employment) not reached
- Lack of sharing; weak communication
- Regions not sufficiently involved
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Europe 2020: delivering reforms
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3 thematic priorities
5 EU headline targets – translated into national
ones
7 flagship initiatives – EU & national action
Mobilising existing and new EU instruments:
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EU and national Budgets & new financing instruments (ex. micro-credit
facility)
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Europe 2020: 3 interlinked priorities
1.) Smart growth: developing an economy
based on knowledge and innovation
2.) Sustainable growth: promoting a more
efficient, greener and more competitive
economy
3.) Inclusive growth: fostering a highemployment economy delivering social and
territorial cohesion
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Europe 2020: 5 EU headline targets
(translated into national targets)
By 2020:
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3% investment in R&D (% of EU’s GDP)
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“20/20/20” climate/energy targets met
75 % employment rate (% of population aged 20-64 years)
Employment actual rate 69%.
< 10% early school leavers & min. 40% hold tertiary degree
Drop-out actual rate 15% .
20 million less people should be at risk of poverty
Europeans living below the national poverty lines should be
reduced by 25%.
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Europe 2020: 7 flagship initiatives
Smart Growth
Sustainable
Growth
Inclusive Growth
Innovation
« Innovation Union »
Climate, energy and
mobility
« Resource efficient
Europe »
Employment and
skills
« An agenda for new
skills and jobs”
Education
Competitiveness
« Youth on the move » « An industrial policy
for the globalisation
Digital society
era »
« A digital agenda for
Europe »
Fighting poverty
« European platform
against poverty »
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Europe 2020 governance
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Lead role for the European Council
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Extend partnership to regions, social partners & civil society
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COM and European Council monitoring
1.) Thematic - combining priorities and headline
targets
2.) Country - Member States strategies to meet targets
… based on international comparison
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Country-specific recommendations & policy warnings
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Process
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Commission launched wide public consultation:
1400 contributions received and analysed
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March 3rd 2010: Commission proposal (COM(2010)2020)
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Spring European Council (25.3.2010): it agreed on it main
elements , including the key targets and arrangements for its
improved monitoring
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June European Council 2010: approve detailed parameters,
including the integrated guidelines and national targets
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Thereafter: launch of flagship initiatives & implementation
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2020 headline targets and ROMA
Europe
2020 and
ROMA
Poverty
Promoting social inclusion in particular through the
reduction of poverty. (Target June 2010)
 Education
Improving education levels in particular by aiming to
reduce school drop-out rates and by increasing the
share of the population having completed tertiary or
equivalent education. (Target June 2010)
 Work
75 % employment rate (% of population aged 20-64
years)
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Europe
2020 and
ROMA
Inclusive Growth: Employment and skills
flagship initiative
« An agenda for news skills and jobs»
.. To increase labour market participation
..To empower people by developing their
skills
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Europe
2020 and
ROMA
An agenda for news skills and jobs
COUNCIL CONCLUSION 25 March 2010
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The European Council agreed to bring to
75% the employment rate for women and
men aged 20-64, including through the
greater participation of youth, older
workers and low skilled workers and the
better integration of legal migrants.
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Europe
2020 and
ROMA
Inclusive Growth: Fighting poverty
flagship initiative
« European platform against poverty »
To ensure social and territorial cohesion
such that the benefits of growth and jobs
are widely shared and people
experiencing poverty and social exclusion
are enabled to live in dignity and take an
active part in society.
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European platform against poverty
Europe
2020 and
ROMA
At EU level
 To transform the OMC on SISP into a platform for
cooperation, and into an instrument to foster commitment
by public and private players to reduce social exclusion,
and take concrete action, including through targeted
support from the structural funds, notably the ESF;
 To design and implement programmes to promote social
innovation for the most vulnerable, and to develop a new
agenda for migrants' integration to enable them to take full
advantage of their potential;
 To undertake an assessment of the adequacy and
sustainability of social protection and pension systems, to
ensure better access to health care systems.
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Europe
2020 and
ROMA
European platform against poverty
At national level
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To promote shared collective and individual responsibility
in combating poverty and social exclusion;
To define and implement measures addressing the
specific circumstances of groups at particular risk (such
as one-parent families, elderly women, minorities, Roma,
people with a disability and the homeless);
To fully deploy their social security and pension systems
to ensure adequate income support and access to health
care.
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Europe
2020 and
ROMA
European platform against poverty
COUNCIL CONCLUSION 25 March 2010
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A general commitment to reduce poverty
and promote social inclusion was agreed,
but there will have to be further work on
specific indicators in this area (as well as
education) and the European Council will
come back to this in June.
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Thank you for attention
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