Ahead of the negotiations on the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the years 2021-2027, the Presidium of CESI determined core trade union policy priorities on where the next MFF’s budgetary resources should stem from and how they should be allocated and spent.

The core priorities include the following:

•  With a view to fostering a sustainable Europe based on social fairness, and environmental protection and long-term economic growth, the 2021-2027 MFF should prioritize in particular:

1. social fairness and decent work, coupling EU funding to the implementation of the 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
2. digitalisation of work and public service provision, which must be developed with the active involvement of trade unions and social partners and which necessitates as a prerequisite reinforced IT networks and infrastructure in cities and areas and peripheral regions; and
3. environmental protection and climate neutrality, coupling EU funding to the environmental targets of an ambitious European Green Deal and starting from the assumption that only a socially-friendly green and digital economic agenda can secure the long-term competitiveness of the European continent.

Read the full position here.