Combat segregation in education and foster inclusion. To this end, give prominence to education in the frame of the European Semester process, promote lifelong learning systems at national level, establish ambitious European targets for equity in education systems, and a target for citizenship competences.

Ensure real access to national language courses for migrants and the recognition of competences of non-EU nationals to increase their possibilities to participate in society and access the labour market. To this end, foster the validation of learning outcomes acquired in non-formal and informal education environments by fully implementing the 2012 Council Recommendations on the […]

Systematically apply an intersectional approach to social measures at EU level, acknowledging and tackling the specific challenges encountered by minority groups, including migrants, in accessing social rights. Pay particular attention to their right to adequate housing, fight against poverty, and fair working conditions.

Seize the Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 to push for ambitious measures to close employment, pay and pension gaps, as well as foster work-life balance of women.

Ensure the ambitious implementation of the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive and monitor the definition of adequacy to ensure it keeps up with the rising cost of living including through the European Semester. Provide support in developing wage-setting reforms through the European Social Fund in candidate countries.

Tackle the financialisation of the housing market by curbing speculative investment and limiting wealth accumulation through housing and by regulating the housing market, including through rent caps. Only allow private investment in the market when it responds to ambitious social and environmental standards.

Expand the affordable housing stock, namely the social housing stock, through renovations, rent control measures and adequate investment in social and affordable housing. Provide substantial support to social and solidarity economy actors through funding and privileged access to public procurement, in the light of their essential role in ensuring access to affordable housing. The European […]

Put forward a European Anti-Poverty strategy that is based on principles like human rights, a holistic approach, and intersectionality. Tackle all forms of poverty including in-work poverty, pension poverty, energy poverty and transport poverty.

Ensure adequate funding for social policies through a stand-alone and ambitious ESF in the next MFF and prevent dispersion of funds for other priorities, like defence. Support funding for access to public and essential services, including healthcare, and support public investment with a progressive taxation policy.

Ensure access to adequate funding for CSOs, including for their vital advocacy work. Align the next MFF with this need by allocating enough funds and establishing transparent and proportionate rules to access them at multiple levels. Support CSOs in candidate countries as part of their accession process, including through access to funding.

Stand up for civil society by putting a decisive end to the specious attacks on CSOs carried out by right-wing political forces at EU, national and local level. Protect and empower activists and CSOs by introducing a Civil Society Strategy fit for purpose.

Ensure that the EPSR, civic space, social and civil dialogue are highly prioritised in accession negotiations for candidate countries

As part of the announced Quality Jobs Roadmap, the Commission should propose a Directive for a Just Transition in the world of work through the anticipation and management of change. This Directive should require companies, Member States, and local authorities to take concerted measures ensuring quality jobs in industrial transitions, and to integrate them into […]

The Just Transition Directive or the Quality Jobs Act should include a ‘Quality Job Golden Rule’ with which all EU transition policies and any form of public support at national and EU levels must comply. This rule should set out a series of obligations, such as the guarantee of wages adjusted to changing living costs, […]

Building on the Directive and the Golden Rule, the Quality Jobs Roadmap and Act should spearhead the development of strategies and measures supporting just transitions in sensitive industrial sectors, such as retraining opportunities during paid working hours, the creation of fair labour practices, including sustainable supply chains in the construction sector and limiting subcontracting in […]