Brussels proposes new goals to try to revive its economy

While almost 25 million people are unemployed in the EU more than 4,100,000 in Spain, the governments try to think of how to depart from the ashes of the crisis and that within ten years there are fewer poor, unemployed and less especially less inactive in Europe.

The European Commission today presents its proposal expected common economic objectives by 2020. After the failure of the goals of the past ten years, new are more modest and realistic although it is still unclear how they will convince or compel states to comply, especially now that they poised to cut public spending and out of recession.

The "green economy and intelligent," a label that you like the Commission, aims to raise the level of employment in the EU from 69% today to 75%, bringing to 20 million poverty, invest at least 3% of GDP in innovation and technology, or reducing below 10% ESL, according to draft proposals to be formalized today and the Twenty discussed at their summit on 25 and 26 March.
The deal, for Van Rompuy

José Manuel Barroso, Commission president, has preferred, however, avoid more complicated discussion of how these goals will be met Herman Van Rompuy, European Council President, who shall be responsible at the summit to address the details of the application.

The Belgian did not favor the "sanctions" or "corrective measures" that defended the Spanish Government, but of incentives, such as providing more funds Europeans who do a better job.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has already written to Barroso to warn that the imposition of economic policy will complicate the adoption of the plan. Germany does not want interference in their decisions in this area, even protected by the Constitutional Court since the inception of the euro.
Warnings

In any case, the Commission will be responsible for publishing "warnings" if governments are far from meeting the common guidelines. But if they are only recommendations without political clout, the risk is to repeat the call history of the 2000 Lisbon Agenda, which was, in large part on promises.

The Commission insists that, if governments do not take seriously the new targets, the EU will fall into a real decline. "If we continue with a slow and uncoordinated reforms, we risk engaging in a permanent loss of wealth, sluggish growth, high unemployment and social tension, and a relative decline in the global arena," says the document.

Governments have a reluctance to abstract discourses common in Brussels, but the role of the Commission has improved compared to their initial versions: now places more emphasis on the current crisis and is cleaner in EU circles about the future, something that bothers those prompted by this