Economic governance

First economic governance package (Sixpack)
As a consequence of the sovereign debt crisis, European member states decided to amend the Maastricht criteria with six...

Second economic governance package (Two-Pack)
The Two-Pack is a legal instrument that amended the so-called

Employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2012
This was the first time that Parliament had adopted a report on the European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination as...

Employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2013
Each year since 2012, as part of its consultative role in the new European system of economic governance, Parliament has...

The Commission's fifth Cohesion Report and the strategy for post-2013 cohesion policy
The EU's cohesion policy is designed to reduce disparities between different EU Member States and their regions. Its main...

Recommendations of the EU Parliament against the economic crisis
Immediately after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers in 2009, when the financial crisis started spreading across...

National and regional economic statistics
Good policy-making requires good information.
Especially in times of economic crisis, it is important to closely...