'It is a good time to appreciate how things have changed: travelling, living, buying and selling, studying in a different member state. Before the #singlemarket the ease with which we do it now would have been unthinkable'
@vestager #EESCplenary '30 years of the Single Market'
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617925338801254401
'We adapted rules to use the flexibility of state aid rules to support countries during the pandemic while preserving a level playing field'
@vestager #EESCplenary '30 years of the Single Market'
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617927559416803329
'From the perspective of Trade Unions the #singlemarket is also an achievement for citizens and workers, potentially a tool to strengthen the social dimension of Europe. But for this, social rights cannot be subordinated to economic freedoms'
@oliverroepke #EESCplenary @vestager
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617928819545100288
'A strong social pillar means also social convergence in the single market, with fair rules. The SM is not an end in itself, but an instrument for a fairer, richer and better Europe, and it must adapt to these goals'
#SocialProgressProtocol
@oliverroepke #EESCplenary @vestager
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617929821551755264
'Protocols for social progress could be included in the single market. Is the emergency instrument enough? Maybe we need a comprehensive overhaul of the SM. Its shortcomings go beyond crises, as with the disarray of tax systems we have'
@SophiaReisecker #EESCplenary @vestager
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617931015426826240
'In crises like the present one, the emergency mechanism should be available. In the long term, we need massive investments to reinforce the #singlemarket.
We must curb inflation, enable SMEs, and integrate the geopolitical perspective'
@LefevreChristop #EESCplenary @vestager
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617933575906820097
'The US have low, stable energy prices. We have high, unpredictable ones. Only accelerating the green transition we can offer affordable and predictable energy prices. Targeted support and funds will be needed to protect jobs and investments'
@vestager #EESCplenary #SingleMarket
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617936458563883008
'The Social Pillar is fundamental: it is a social market economy, and we have social rights. The EU does not have many competences on social issues, but we are doing our best with the room of manouvre we have'.
@vestager #EESCplenary #SingleMarket
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1617934889638330368