At a meeting with eight member states from Central and Eastern Europe on Friday 2 February in Budapest, the Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Marianne Thyssen, presented a number of major areas for reflection to help enhance social convergence and reshape the European Social Fund (ESF) in view of the next multi-annual financial framework.
First of all, the Commissioner highlighted the need to use the social scoreboard more as part of the European Semester, a mechanism that had...