The EU economies are more and more interlinked. This means that it's on the
one side easier to buy, sell, move and live abroad. It also means that when one
country has major difficulties in terms of how the economy is run, then it
affects the entire European Union. The financial crisis of 2008 is a good
example of this, where some countries responded with a bit more difficulties to the
financial crisis, and this of course had an overall impact over the EU economies,
and over all 28 member states. This is why the European Commission in 2010
created a process called the European Semester, which simply put is a dialogue
between member states and the European Commission, to help coordinate national
policies, to make sure that there aren't major imbalances or major economic
issues in each country. It can talk on the one hand about debt, about fiscal
issues, but it also talks, especially more and more recently, about social issues, about
poverty and social exclusion, about the high levels of unemployment, about the
importance of Education and making sure that we have a well trained and well
supported workforce. These are all matters which are talked about in the
European Semester, to avoid that we have major economic issues throughout the EU in the years to come.
So the European Semester is a dialogue between member states and the European
Commission. To do this, the European Commission analyzes each year the
current state of play of policies in a wide range of areas in each country.
Based on this country reports, they produce country-specific recommendations
to each countries, and these recommendations outline the major barriers but
also the major, let's say trends, and what needs to be done to make sure that the
country's economy goes in the right direction. And these can cover quite a
broad diversity of issues, for example in Bulgaria, the European Commission is
advising the Bulgarian authorities to do more to integrate social services and
employment services, in particular to help the integration in the labor market
of people from disadvantaged groups and this can include of course people with
disabilities, and this is actually one of the topics of our conference in Varna in
a few weeks time. in Austria they are talking about the need to do more to
include quality criteria in public procurement practices and as we know
public procurement is one of the major instruments to help fund our sector
throughout Europe. This is of course a positive thing. And in Latvia for
instance, another example is, they've acknowledged that in that year,
people with disabilities are, the level of poverty of people with disabilities
is increasing over the last few years and therefore they are asking Latvian
authorities to address this through different mechanisms.
Every country in Europe, except Greece who have their own mechanism, receives
country-specific recommendations. We've done a summary of these recommendations
and I would really recommend that you all check them out, to get a better
understanding of how the EU sees your country and within which context and how
that is done. It's a really interesting read.
The European semester may seem like a long, bureaucratic process which has no
impact on your services. This is far from being the truth. What we see is that more
and more member states are taking into account these recommendations and
implementing them at national level and we have to make sure that our views, your
views, are also taken into account in this process to support the transition
to more community-based services and to support the implementation of the UN Convention
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