The European Commission today published a disappointing response to the proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
While the Commission displays openness to consider treaty changes and to play fully its role in the process to convene a Convention to change the Treaties, the response fails to focus on the necessary actions to ensure social progress and improvement in living and working conditions for the future of Europe – as requested by the Conference.
The Commission’s response consisted of a long list of initiatives they have already taken, a second long list of initiatives they have already committed to undertake, and a very short list of issues which it will “will consider new areas of action”
ETUC General Secretary Luca Visentini said:
“The correct response from EU institutions to the year-long work of citizens to make proposals on the future of Europe would be a list of new areas of action – not to rehash an old list of what they have already done and what they have already committed to. […] People and workers in Europe deserve better, and the ETUC will push to make sure they get something a lot more substantial in the autumn.”
