Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) adopted by written procedure on Monday 16 November, by a solid majority (38 votes in favour, 13 against, 4 abstentions), the own-initiative report by Dennis Radtke (EPP, Germany) and Agnes Jongerius (S&D, Netherlands) in which they call for binding targets in the social field.
“We have learnt the lessons of the Lisbon Agenda, which contained many targets, but none of them were binding”, said MEP...