The 2025 European Semester – Autumn Package outlines economic and social policy priorities for the EU to ensure sustainable prosperity.
In November 2024, the European Commission published the first part of the package, launching the first implementation cycle of the new economic governance framework. It consisted of the assessment of the medium-term fiscal-structural plans for 21 Member States, the Commission opinion on the draft budgetary plans for 2025 of 17 euro-area Member States, as well as steps in the implementation of the excessive deficit procedures for 8 Member States.
The European Commission’s European Semester Autumn Package, published in December 2024, initiates a new cycle of the European Semester, providing a comprehensive overview of the socio-economic landscape, identifying key priorities and risks, and offering policy guidance to assist EU Member States in achieving shared objectives in 2025.
It highlights the EU’s recent resilience while emphasising the need to address structural barriers to growth. COFACE has analysed more specifically the evaluation of country performances in the area of early childhood education care (see here).
The EU is committed to ensure sustainable prosperity and competitiveness while strengthening its social market economy and safeguarding its sovereignty, economic security and global influence. The European Economic and Social Committee’s opinion on the 2025 European Semester – Autumn package is due to be adopted at the EESC plenary session of February 2025.
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