Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2084(INI)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 12 March 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 28 November 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 19 February 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 27 February 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 12 March 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
12 March 2025 · decision 4
Jobs, social affairs & equality, Resolution
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025
Adopted 351 for · 260 against · 70 abstained by a small majority
AI summary:The text calls for modernising labour markets, strengthening social protection, and investing in education and training to address labour shortages and demographic change.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The adopted text removes several calls for new EU legislation or binding measures, including on AI in the workplace, psychosocial risks, housing regulation, and minimum income. It also deletes references to social partners' involvement, migrant workers' role, and minimum wage monitoring, and shortens calls on homelessness and health coverage. Paragraphs on work-life balance and demography are reordered and slightly rephrased. The other changes are formal: decimal commas are used in figures.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Employment and Social Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Maravillas Abadía Jover (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Idoia Mendia (S&D), Mep #256855 (Patriots), Marlena Maląg (ECR), Hristo Petrov (Renew), Benedetta Scuderi (Greens), Kathleen Funchion (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 12 Mar 2025
AI summary:This resolution sets out Parliament's employment and social priorities for the 2025 European Semester, calling for stronger implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its 2030 targets.
Tabled for plenary· 27 Feb 2025
AI summary:The report sets out Parliament's employment and social priorities for the 2025 European Semester, calling for stronger implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its 2030 targets.
Committee draft· 3 Dec 2024
AI summary:This draft report concerns the European Semester for economic policy coordination, focusing on employment and social priorities for 2025. It calls for implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights, addressing housing, mental health, work-life balance, demographic challenges, and reducing bureaucratic barriers for SMEs.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
12 March 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 12 Mar 2025 Report A10-0023/2025Adopted text TA10-0032/2025
12 March 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 12 Mar 2025 Report A10-0022/2025Report A10-0023/2025
5 March 2025
17 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
27 February 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
19 February 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
9 January 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
3 December 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
28 November 2024
Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2084(INI)