On the morning of Wednesday 20 October, MEPs voted by a slim majority (347 votes to 162, with 191 abstentions) to approve the report by Lina Gálvez Muñoz (S&D, Spain) on employment and social policies in the euro area in 2021, which calls, among other things, for reforms to the ‘European Semester’ budgetary process in order to strengthen its social dimension, drawing on the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It was not easy to convince the parliamentary arc, but we have reached a...