Semestre europeo per il coordinamento delle politiche economiche 2024

Presentato da José Gusmão, Manon Aubry, Martin Schirdewan, Manu Pineda

Aggiunto: 17e. Regrets that the revision of the European Union’s economic governance framework is based on a strategy of reducing public spending instead of finding new revenue sources, which implies a return to austerity; deplores the failure of the revision to ensure sufficient fiscal space to promote public investment in the green transition, public services and upward social convergence; warns that the new rules will require a massive, unrealistic and unsustainable fiscal adjustment by some Member States to comply with the imposed debt and deficit reduction criteria; underlines that even the IMF has acknowledged that fiscal consolidation, on average, does not reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio, which means that austerity fails to achieve its own objectives;

Testo come pubblicato dal PE, in inglese. PE760.469