OPEN FORUM : SOCIAL INVESTMENT, A NEW AMBITION FOR EUROPEAN GROWTH.

The European Commission has recently published the social investment package, a set of recommendations for member states to ensure that a social investment euro is a euro towards growth. This is good news, echoing the surprise triggered by the announcement of a discord budget, contested by Parliament. It must be remembered that the Lisbon Treaty supported Europe's political power, raising co-decision to the status of an ordinary legislative procedure. The European Parliament has the same weighting as the European Council on texts proposed by the Commission, except that it did not participate in the Commission's annual examination of growth in preparation of the European semester' 2013 of economic governance. It therefore expressed its opinion by adopting the initiative report on social investment.

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