About

Individuals and businesses in the EU can only thrive if the economy works for them.
The EU’s unique social market economy allows economies to grow and to reduce poverty and inequality. Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the EU’s economy. It is essential to strengthen them, complete the Capital Markets Union and deepen the Economic and Monetary Union.
With Europe on a stable footing, the economy can fully respond to the needs of EU citizens.
Highlight

22 March 2023 - The European Commission is proposing new rules to make it easier for consumers to support the green transition by promoting the repair of products and by stopping 'greenwashing'. The new measures will allow consumers to have easier and cheaper options to repair products. The new rules also introduce stricter criteria to stop companies from making misleading claims about environmental merits of their products and services. Consumers will have more clarity and stronger reassurance that when something is sold as green, it is actually green.

NextGenerationEU
Europe’s plan to address the most important challenges

European Skills Agenda
Helping individuals and businesses develop more and better skills

European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan
Building a fairer and more inclusive European Union

New Consumer Agenda
Empowering European consumers to play an active role in the green and digital transitions

Adequate minimum wages in the EU
Ensuring that workers in the EU earn adequate minimum wages

Working conditions of platform workers
Ensuring labour rights and social benefits for people working through digital labour platforms

New Business Taxation Agenda
Ensuring sustainable growth and public revenues

Small and medium-size enterprises strategy
Supporting and empowering SMEs of all sizes and sectors

Capital Markets Union
A plan to unlock funding for Europe’s growth
Timeline
- 25 January 2023
Presentation of an initiative to further strengthen and promote social dialogue at national and EU level.
- 8 December 2022
Adoption of a series of measures to modernise the EU’s Value-Added Tax (VAT) system
- 7 December 2022
Capital Markets Union: new proposals on clearing, corporate insolvency and company listing to make EU capital markets more attractive
- 22 November 2022
Economic policy coordination: Commission sets out guidance to help tackle the energy crisis and make Europe greener and more digital
- 14 November 2022
- 12 October 2022
- 11 May 2022
- 23 February 2022
- 25 November 2021
- 12 October 2021
- 22 September 2021
- 6 July 2021
- 7-8 May 2021
- 24 March 2021
- 21 October 2020
- 27 May 2020
- 14 January 2020
Policy areas
Economic and financial union
Creating a deeper and fairer economic and monetary union
Jobs, growth and investment
Boosting investment and creating jobs
Youth employment support
A bridge to jobs for the next generation
Internal Market
A deeper and fairer internal market
The European Semester
The EU annual cycle of economic policy co-ordination
State aid
Ensuring that state-owned resources are not deployed to distort competition in the single market
Financial services
Preserving financial stability in the EU, by protecting savers and investors
Economic forecasts
Macroeconomic forecasts for the EU and its Member States