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European Women's Lobby - EWL
Direct Link to Full 47-Page
Document: here.
8. Mainstream gender and other
equality objectives throughout Europe 2020 and the European Semester, which are
currently absent.
Includes Alternative Proposals for
Country-Specific Recommendations.
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14 May 2013 - Getting
alternative proposals for Country Specific Recommendations
(CSRs) in the European Semester. The 2013 European Semester is currently in
full swing, especially according to the European Commission.
Member States are currently
submitting their national reform programmes and their stability or convergence
programmes and the Commission receives and then assesses them. The national
documents were uploaded here as they arrived. The results of the
Commission assessment will be presented very soon, on the 29 May together
with proposals for country specific recommendations, CSRs to
be endorsed by the European Council.
However - civil society NGO
groups, like the European Women’s Lobby - have grave concerns about the CSRs
that will be proposed by the European Commission, and believe that as we enter
our fifth year of austerity measures, that there is another way. Together, the
coalition advocates for policy improvement in employment, poverty, education,
tax, environmental change and gender equality. Steps are urgently needed to
restore the balance between social and sustainable objectives and economic
governance, if the EU is to revive trust in its Europe 2020 promises of a
smart, sustainable and inclusive recovery based on democratic accountability
and engagement.
“European governance mechanisms
need to move beyond enforcing budgetary and financial stability and re-connect
to the lives of real women, men, girls and boys across
The ad-hoc coalition, comprised of the European Anti-poverty Network (EAPN), Caritas Europa, Green Budget Europe, European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD),Eurodiaconia, Eurochild, and AGE have produced a joint document providing alternative CSRs.
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