Following the adoption of the EU Corona Recovery and Resilience Facility, Member States have started to submit to the European Commission their proposals for national plans on how they intend to invest the grants and loans to re-build their social, economic and environmental infrastructures. The national plans are now assessed by the European Commission regarding their compatibility in particular with EU environmental and digital transition targets and will, thereafter, be submitted to the Council for adoption.

To evaluate the possible impact of these plans in the field of employment and social affairs, CESI organised a timely debate with experts from think tanks and representatives from trade unions. As the main speakers of the event, Marta Pilati, Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC) and author of a recent study on ‘National recovery and resilience plans: Empowering the green and digital transitions?’ and Roberto Di Maulo, Secretary General of the Italian Confsal-Fismic trade union and Vice-President of CESI, presented their views on the national recovery strategies and answered to questions relating to the socio-economic-environmental balance of the plans, their priorities in the field of employment and capacities to bring socially just recoveries, and the role of trade unions and social partners in their implementation.

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