We live via the primary moments of a ‘new regular’ for the whole world and a brand new period for Europe.
The battle in Ukraine — a battle in Europe — marked the tip of globalisation as we knew it, and signalled the start of a interval of instability with unforeseeable penalties.
In an already fragile atmosphere for nations and residents with repeated crises and unprecedented challenges, Europe is known as upon to put money into resilient insurance policies that can guarantee its financial prosperity, power autonomy, and the well-being of its folks.
The formidable plans of the European Fee in direction of greener and extra digital insurance policies have the potential to grow to be a catalyst for the creation of a sustainable Europe that can be capable of assure security, monetary stability, and excessive residing requirements.
But their success depends upon whether or not these insurance policies shall be socially simply. As a result of such deep reforms can solely succeed if they’re primarily based on a broad consensus amongst all of the members and teams of our society: they have to be supported by the entire group.
By means of totally different keynote addresses, video messages, interactive workshops and follow-up plenary debates, this 12 months’s Summer time Days with EUobserver as media companion helped us organise our ideas and concepts to know what’s at stake and to evaluate the significance of holding the social agenda on the core of the transition processes.
The debates made clear:
• Social equity means multi-level, multi-sectoral, multinational cooperation, involvement and possession. Turning environmental insurance policies and digitalisation into an actual enabler for sustainability requires cooperation between nations, markets, and sectors.
• Social equity means the inexperienced/digital transitions have to be worker-centred. The implications of the transitions for social affairs, labour markets, and employment shall be huge and can span to nearly all sectors of our economies. For this, we want sturdy mechanisms to make sure social dialogue and the involvement of communities all through the entire transition course of.
• The Subsequent Era EU, and, particularly the Restoration and Resilience Facility and the nationwide restoration and resilience plans can create a powerful added worth and help social insurance policies in the course of the transitions. To make sure that, we should fastidiously assess the implementation of the plans, and the credibility and sustainability of the reforms.
• Sustainability requires correct abilities and performing public companies. Our schooling programs ought to be tailored to satisfy the necessities of present developments and put together college students and employees for the challenges of our instances, whereas public companies have to be financially supported to have the ability to assure residents’ elementary rights, their well-being and the cohesion of our societies. To have the ability to shield residents and employees in the course of the inexperienced transition, we want a powerful social dimension within the EU Inexperienced Deal, primarily based on the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Porto Declaration.
Earlier than designing and implementing formidable plans, we should at all times map their potential advantages and dangers for the society, for residents, for employees.
To make sure this, employees and their representatives have to be given a central voice. The green-digital transformation have to be a simply transition. It have to be completed ‘with’ the employees and never ‘to’ them. In any other case, it won’t be sustainable.
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