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Smart and inclusive growth
ECO/327 Draft opinion
Rapporteur: Etele Baráth dr.
Expert: András Vértes dr.
2012. 06. 06.
Nobody thought that…
• …the financial-economic crisis so quickly
becoming a social-political-solidarity crisis;
• …it is so difficult to preserve economic
stability and to create conditions for smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth
simultaneously;
• …in the weak countries output has started to
fall;
• …the EU-integration is becoming much more
complex, multi-speed and infected with
divergent nationalistic interests.
• The Europe 2020 Strategy and the first
drafts of MFF had no possibility to fully
incorporate the potential threat of these
challenges.
Europe 2020…
• has to remain the growth strategy of the
EU, but fine-tuned and adjusted,
• major mismatch is between the complexity
of Europe 2020 and the modest
instruments made available,
• discrepancies are between the long
timeframe and the uncertain resources,
• institutional system of the implementation
is weak.
For a successful
implementation of Europe 2020
• the EU will have to have clear idea of where it
is going to,
• accomplishment needs basic institutional
changes,
• a federal system of biggest banks to
strengthen confidence and investments,
• differentiated policies (North vs. South).
Not only in time of crisis
It is not enough just to define common
strategic „frameworks”, it needs to define
networks:
• for pan-European economic and territorial
programmes,
• for cross-sectoral, multi dimensional
programmes.
Best means for an integrated,
coordinated development 1.
• Partial financing of sovereign debt reducing
structural reforms (create European Added
Value)!
• Vision of a „Connected Europe” in a larger
sense.
• Build up a new vision of Europe by ”Key
Developments of European Interest”.
Best means for an integrated,
coordinated development 2.
• Macro-level regional and economic
strategies.
• There is a need for a European Territorial
Strategy.
• Reinforcement of polycentric urban
network.
For a smart and inclusive future
• New definition of solidarity: communityled local development.
• Increasing role for certain „soft” factors:
healthcare, quality of the environment,
educational quality.
• Networking between individual urban
and rural centres, hubs and other
highly developed activities could be
good examples for dynamic/inclusive
growth.
An example for an integrated
Europe 2020 strategy model
• The proposal on implementing the triple
objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy call for
clear synchronisation between them.
• Networking, interdependence, and tapping into
specific conditions in relation to different
activities help to reconcile smart and
inclusive growth,
• Sustainability is all about structure per se and
links between mutually dependent activities.
An Integrated Europe
Working together in Europe
EU 2020
Sustainable development
Competitiveness
Development oriented governance
Employment package
Human capital potential
Job creating reforms
Economic governance
Economic and Monetary Union
Internal market
Smart growth
Employment
Inclusive growth EnvironmentSustainable growth
Structural reforms
Fiscal consolidation
Cohesion
European Territorial Strategy
Macro-regional cooperation
Connecting Europe
Member States, regions and cities
Cohesion oriented cooperation
EU 2020
Macro level
Requirements for smart
and inclusive growth
Targets and thematic proposals
Multi-annual Finacial Framework
Innovation Union
Digital Agenda for Europe
Youth on the Move
Research, technological
develeopment, infirmation and
Communication,
Competitiveness of the SMEs
An Agenda for new skills
European platform against poverty
Employment
Promoting employment,
labor mobility,social inclusion
Combating poverty,.
education and skillse,
instutional capacity building
Environment
Fiscal consolidation,
normal lending to the economy,
promoting growth,tackling the crisis
Ressource efficient Europe
An industrial policy for the
Globalisational era
Ressourse efficiency,
climate change,
risk prevention/ managment
Sustainable transport and
infrastructural development
Requirements for sustainable
growth
Micro level
Efficacy and efficiency use of Eu Funds
The role of te EESC in the implementation of
the EU 2020 Strategy
• There is dialectical conflict between dynamic
(smart) and converging, inclusive development:
- intrinsic to the idea of smart growth is
constant renewal, acceleration, competition,
defined in interest,
- the concept of inclusive growth refers to
social and environmental more slowly changing
and progressing values,
- the results of the balance between smart and
inclusive growth are reflected in the chosen
proportion, the concept of sustainable
development.
One last proposal. . .
• Consider a 12th thematic objective with
the topic of Media and Societal Dialogue.
• The situation needs efficient
mobilisation of intellectual and material
resources of the EU.
• The EESC could do justice to its role if,
on the basis of its compositon, it use
its expertise and sophisticated
methodology to express knowledge
reflecting relations between interests,
values and proportions.
Thank you for your attention