2. Variety in unemployment rates between Member States

3. Impact of the crisis Expected GDP growth for 2011 remains modest
Unemployment > 9% and expected to stay high
Social protection around 30% GDP (EU 27)
Fiscal consolidation will affect social expenditure: a challenge for social polices aimed at addressing poverty and exclusion
Consolidation must be designed to minimise short-turn costs and maximise long-turn benefits to prevent that social protection deteriorates and poverty increases.

4. At-risk-of poverty rates by groups, EU, 2005-2008
Despite economic and employment growth poverty was not reduced before the crisis
At-risk-of poverty rates by groups, EU,
In-work poverty also remained stable at 8%.
The risk of poverty of the unemployed is much higher and was even on the rise, highlighting concerns about the adequacy of safety nets.

5. 120 Million people at risk of poverty or exclusion
40 Mio people materially deprived
80 Mio people at risk of poverty
40 Mio people in workless households
Million people
People at-risk-of-poverty 80
+ Those materially deprived, not at-risk-of-poverty 22
+ Those living in a workless household, not at-risk-of-poverty, not deprived 18
Total: People at-risk-of poverty or exclusion
120

6. GUIDELINES to orientate Member States’ policies
The ‘Europe 2020’ strategy for jobs and for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth
Inclusive growth
GUIDELINES
to orientate Member States’ policies
FLAGSHIP
INITIATIVES
EU HEADLINE
TARGETS
AN AGENDA FOR
NEW SKILLS
AND JOBS
75% employment
rate
for the 20-64
YOUTH ON
THE MOVE
10% early school leavers
40% of the with
tertiary education
Current figures:
69% employment rates
30-34 tertiary edcuation 31%
early school levares 15%
To be completed by national targets

7. EU tools in support of the Europe 2020 strategy
EU monitoring and guidance
Macro, thematic
and fiscal
surveillance
Annual Growth Survey
Annual policy guidance
EU flagship initiatives
Digital Agenda (May 2010)
Youth on the Move
(Sept. 2010)
Innovation Union (Sept. 2010)
New Industrial Policy (Oct. 2010)
New Skills and Jobs
(Nov. 2010)
Platform against Poverty
(Dec. 2010)
Resource
Efficiency
(Early 2011)
EU levers for growth and jobs
Single market relaunch
Trade and external
policies
EU financial support

8. Current estimation based on draft NRPs
Targets
EU headline target
Current estimation based on draft NRPs
Employment (20-64)
75% %
R&D (% EU GDP) 3% %
Tertiary achievement (30-34)
School drop-out
at least 40%
under 10%
38.1%
11.3%
Social inclusion/fight against poverty
20 million people out of poverty
Target will not be met, but exact calculation N/A
Energy efficiency increase
20%
10%

9. Governance of the Europe 2020 strategy
Europe 2020 five headline targets
Stability and Growth Pact
Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines (IG)
Macro-economic
surveillance
Thematic surveillance
Fiscal surveillance
National Reform Programmes
Stability and Convergence Programmes
National level
Commission’s Annual Growth Survey
EU annual policy guidance and recommendations
EU flagship initiatives and levers
EU level

10. Decisions at national level
The European semester
January
March
April
February
May
June
July
European Commission
Annual Growth Survey
Policy guidance including possible recommendations
Autumn:
Peer review at EU level
Council of Ministers
Debate & orientations
Finalisation & adoption of guidance
Debate & orientations
European Parliament
European Council
Annual economic & social summit
Endorsement of guidance
Adoption of National Reform Programmes (NRPs) & Stability and Convergence Programmes (SCPs)
Autumn:
Decisions at national level
Member States

11. Stepping up efforts to combat poverty: a priority within Europe 2020
Most vulnerable hit hardest by the crisis, yet poverty and social exclusion already major concern in Europe beforehand
One of seven flagship initiatives within the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Ultimate objective: lifting at least 20 million people out of poverty and social exclusion by 2020

12. Challenges and priorities
Impact on multiple dimensions of poverty through action across the whole policy spectrum
Address needs of groups particularly at risk, tackle severe exclusion and new vulnerabilities
Break the cycle of disadvantage and step up prevention efforts
Do better and more efficiently in times of budget constraints
A framework for action, building on 10 years of cooperation and finding new, participative approaches

13. Five areas for action Delivering action across the policy spectrum
Making EU funds deliver on the social inclusion and social cohesion objectives
Developing an evidence-based approach to social innovation and reforms
Promoting a partnership approach and the social economy
Stepping up policy coordination between the Member States

14. Delivering action across the policy spectrum (1)
Enhancing access to employment and active inclusion of vulnerable groups
Communication on active inclusion, 2012
Making social protection and services more responsive to new social needs
White paper on Pensions, 2011
Further develop quality framework on social services (sectoral approach on homelessness)
Follow-up to communication on health inequalities
Breaking the cycle of disadvantage
Recommendation on early school leaving, 2011
Recommendation on child poverty, 2012

15. Delivering action across the policy spectrum (2)
Promoting the inclusion of disadvantaged groups
EU framework for national Roma Integration Strategies , 2011
Follow-up to 2010 consensus conference on homelessness and housing exclusion
Tackling poverty beyond social policies
Implementation of energy internal market legislation
Combating digital divide (implementation of Digital Agenda)
Legislative initiative on access to basic bank services, 2011
Social impact assessment
Refining methodology, improving cooperation with EU institutions and Member States

16. Making EU funds deliver on social inclusion objectives
2010 Budget review stresses need to linking more directly structural funds and ESF to Europe 2020 headline targets (including poverty target)
Commission Proposals for next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (2011) will explore following options:
Enhancing ESF contribution to achievement of poverty target
Devoting necessary resources to social inclusion
Reinforcing support to disadvantaged groups
Simplified access and tailored made grant schemes for local partnerships
Greater synergies and complementarities between EU funds

17. Promoting evidence based social innovation
Build on existing tools (peer reviews, mutual learning…) to guide structural reforms, promote more effective and efficient interventions
Major social experimentation initiative, possibly focusing on social assistance (2011):
Pooling resources from various EU funds
Fine-tuning methodology
Development of wider scale experiment
Communication and dissemination

18. Promoting partnership and the social economy
Strengthening existing partnerships and involving new actors (social partners, regional/local authorities, NGOs…)
Voluntary guidelines on stakeholders’ involvement and participation of people experiencing poverty (2012)
Regular dialogue on thematic priorities
Harnessing the potential of the social economy
Improving legal structures (e.g. foundations)
Social Business Initiative (2011) to support socially innovative corporate projects (Single Market Act)

19. Stepping up coordination between Member States
Strong social dimension within Europe 2020
National Reform Programmes to define national target, strategies, stakeholder involvement
Commission will work with Member States and stakeholders to adapt working methods of the OMC to governance of Europe 2020 and best combine:
Integration and focus
Continuity and innovation
Simplification and accountability
Coordination and subsidiarity
Report presented by the end of 2011 following discussion with involved actors on the basis of the experience of the first European semester

20. Further information http://ec.europa.eu/employmentstrategy
General Europe 2020
Employment policies
DG EMPL’s ‘flexicurity’ site: