Whilst welcoming the inclusion of social aspects in the country-by-country recommendations in the framework of the 'European Semester' budgetary process, the members of the European Parliament expressed concern at the very low implementation rate among the member states of the said recommendations, in an own-initiative report on employment and social policies in the Eurozone on Thursday 25 October.
For instance, in his explanatory statement, rapporteur Krzystof Hetman (EPP, Poland) points...