17 POLICY COMMITMENTS OF PRESIDENT JUNCKER
Submitted by christian on Wed, 04/01/2015 - 09:57
- Boost growth and jobs through an Investment Package focused on energy and broadband networks, transport infrastructure, education, research and innovation
- Introduce a digital single market package, including a proposal to modernise copyright rules
- Establish a new Energy Union based on diversity, affordability and efficiency of energy sources, and make Europe the leader in renewable energy
- Exploit the full potential of the internal market in products and services, bringing the industrial sector back to 20% of EU GDP by 2020
- Complete banking reform with stricter supervision and resolution rules, and complete the financial services regulatory framework
- Promote labour mobility in fields with persistent vacancies and skills mismatches, and review the Posted Workers Directive
- Work for a common corporate tax base and implement measures to combat money laundering
- Continue reform of the Economic and Monetary Union to preserve the stability of the euro
- Negotiate a reasonable and balanced EU-US free trade agreement based on reciprocal benefits and transparency
- Conclude a comprehensive EU-US data protection agreement and conduct a review of the Safe Harbour agreement
- Conclude EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights
- Launch a new policy on legal migration, starting with a review of the Blue Card Directive and implementation of a common asylum policy
- Step up operational capacity of the EU border agency, Frontex, vigorously enforcing rules to penalise human traffickers
- Position Europe as a stronger global actor in foreign, trade, financial, development and neighbourhood policies
- Review the legislation for authorisation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
- Propose an inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register for interest representatives
- Further develop and integrate capital markets into a future Capital Markets Union
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