SOCIAL AFFAIRS / Social affairs

Parliament wants more democratic process for employment policy guidelines

Brussels, 20/04/2018 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament wants the decision-making process for member states’ employment policy guidelines to be improved and for the Council to genuinely take the European Parliament’s opinion into account, according to an own-initiative report by Miroslavs Mitrofanovs (Greens/EFA, Latvia) adopted by a comfortable majority (452 to 156 with 39 abstentions) on Thursday 19 April.

For Council decisions, the European Parliament only has an advisory role, which MEPs see as problematic since...