by
2025-03-08
CESI, Social Platform & Eurodiaconia continue to drive the agenda for more public social investments in the Member States
-
On Tuesday last week CESI, Eurodiaconia and Social Platform held a high-level meeting with key stakeholders and decision-makers from the European institutions to discuss ways to promote more public social investments in the Member States.
The meeting brought together CESI, Social Platform and Eurodiaconia and a number of affiliates with experts and political representatives of the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the European Policy Centre (EPC) to exchange with decision-makers from several cabinets and Directorate-Generals (DGs) of the European Commission involved in the European Semester and the EU’s macroeconomic governance and fiscal coordination framework.
The specific objective was to establish:
• how more public social investments can be promoted in the European Semesters upcoming 2018 Annual Growth Survey (AGS), Country reports and Country-specific recommendations (CSRs), especially in fields such as early childhood education and care, education and training, health and social housing; and
• how the EU can develop a common framework (methodology) to measure economic returns of social investments – as a precondition to establish which social expenditure is future-oriented investment and could receive special consideration in the frame of the EU’s economic governance and budgetary surveillance rules.
According to CESI, Eurodiaconia and Social Platform, both is essential to counter growing social divergences in Europe.
The meeting followed a previous edition which took place in January and which saw the launch of a joint initiative by CESI, Social Platform and Eurodiaconia to nourish and structure emerging debates about a feasible and effective roadmap towards more public investments to counter social divergences in Europe.
For further information:
Hendrik Meerkamp
Policy Adviser
meerkamp@cesi.org
0032-(0)2 282 1860
Image Gallery
CESI, Social Platform & Eurodiaconia continue to drive the agenda for more public social investments in the Member States
No items found.
Related videos
No items found.
Similar Posts
Main news
2026-09-23
CSIF visits CESI for trade union policy advocacy on the European Pillar of Social Rights
On September 22 and 23, CESI hosted a visit of a delegation comprising the leadership of its Spanish member organisation CSIF in Brussels for trade union policy advocacy meetings to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights in the Spanish country context.
.png)
Events
Main news
2026-09-17
CESI@noon on Europe’s digital transition: The role of workers in advancing businesses’ digitalisation
Digitalisation must be done with workers, not to workers. That was one of the central messages emerging from yesterday’s CESI@noon on “Europe’s digital transition: The role of workers in advancing businesses’ digitalisation”, organised by CESI - Independent Trade Unions in cooperation with the University of St.Gallen (FAA-HSG).
.png)
Main news
2026-09-17
Individual learning accounts need to be enforceable and adequately funded
CESI calls for meaningful and portable training entitlements for individual learning accounts in the EU that supplement employers’ obligations and collective rights, backed by paid training time, sustainable funding and trade union involvement.
Get in touch
with us
Confédération Européenne des Syndicats Indépendants (CESI)
Contact form
Stay up to date
Don’t miss a thing and subscribe to our newsletter
Subscribe now and receive newsletters and much more!