Commissione per l'occupazione e gli affari sociali

The European Parliamentary Week (EPW) 2025, co-organised by the European Parliament, the Polish Seijm and the Polish Senate, will take place on 17 and 18 February 2025 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event brings together parliamentarians from the EU, candidate and observer countries to discuss economic, budgetary and social matters. As part of the event, the EMPL committee is organising two interparliamentary committee meetings in the afternoon of the 17 February (16.20-19.20 CET).

The last Joint ECON-EMPL Economic Dialogue on the European Semester took place on 28 January 2025. It consisted of an exchange of views on the recently published 2025 European Semester Autumn Package with Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness and Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification.

On 1 January 2025, Poland took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, starting another Presidency trio consisting of Poland, Denmark and Cyprus. The motto of the Polish Presidency is Security, Europe!

On 16 January 2025, from 10:30 to 12:30, the EMPL Committee held an exchange of views with Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy on the social dimension of his report 'Much more than a market' submitted to the European Council in April 2024.