THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY

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THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE EUROPE 2020
STRATEGY
Seminar of the Social Platform 26 June
2014 Marcel HAAG Secretariat-General of the
European Commission Head of Unit "Europe 2020,
European Semester, Economic Governance"
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Outline

• State of play on the Europe 2020 strategy
• Towards the mid-term review of the strategy the
  public consultation on Europe 2020
• Next steps

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State of play on the Europe 2020 strategy

• Developments since 2010 show a mixed picture,
  with positive advances in a number of areas being
  offset by several persisting challenges,
  especially as a consequence of the crisis.

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A number of encouraging developments

• A gradual recovery gaining ground after a deep
  recession

Real GDP growth ()
forecast
Source European Commission
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but the persistence of challenges

• Unemployment and the social impact of the crisis
• High levels of public and private debt
• Still tight access to finance
• A range of long-term challenges
• Need to maintain the momentum of reforms

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Uneven progress towardsthe Europe 2020 targets

• The EU is on course to meet or closely approach
  the targets on education, climate and energy
• This is not the case regarding employment,
  research and development and poverty reduction
• Performance towards the targets also shows
  increasing differences across Member States, and
  sometimes within them, in several areas

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The target on poverty and social exclusion a
complex definition

• A target made up of three components
• National targets expressed in different ways

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A general increase in exposure to poverty and
social exclusion as a result of the crisis
Source European Commission
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The European platform against poverty and
social exclusion achievements and challenges

• Ambition integrated approach to fight poverty
  and partnership between civil society, social
  partners and Member States
• Swift delivery of actions
• but lack of visibility and of a unified
  framework

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Towards the mid-term review of the strategy the
public consultation on Europe 2020

• The public consultation aims to draw lessons from
  the first years of implementation of the Europe
  2020 strategy and further develop it to make it
  an effective post-crisis growth strategy for
  Europe.

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The public consultation why now?

• Conjunction of procedural, economic and
  institutional factors
• Procedural halfway to the 2020 deadline
• Economic European economies are gradually
  recovering from historically deep recession of
  the last years
• need to strengthen and sustain the emerging
  recovery
• Institutional to provide the new Commission with
  an assessment of the early years of the Europe
  2020 strategy and ideas on how to further develop
  it 

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The public consultation how?

• Open until 31 October 2014 to all interested
  parties
• Content
• Scope, ownership and delivery of the strategy
• Instruments
• Replies will help harvest concrete experiences on
  the functioning of the strategy. The involvement
  of relevant actors is thus key for the success of
  the public consultation

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Next steps

• The public consultation will feed into the
  mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy,
  which should take place in 2015.

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Next steps

• 5 May-31 October 2014 public consultation on the
  Europe 2020 strategy
• After the closure of the public consultation
  synthesis of the outcome and main messages
  emerging from the public consultation
• Early 2015 policy conclusions and proposals from
  the Commission for the pursuit of the strategy
• Spring 2015 discussion of the mid-term review of
  the Europe 2020 strategy at the European Council

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For more information

• On the public consultation
• Your Voice in Europe and the public
  consultation's website
• Mailbox SG-EUROPE2020-CONSULTATION_at_ec.europa.eu
• On the Europe 2020 strategy
• Europe 2020 website
• European Semester website
• Eurostat indicators and publications

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THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE EUROPE 2020
STRATEGY
Seminar of the Social Platform 26 June
2014 Marcel HAAG Secretariat-General of the
European Commission Head of Unit "Europe 2020,
European Semester, Economic Governance"