Memo: Tripartite Social Summit: EU leaders and social partners agree on stronger social dimension in the EU

EU leaders on 24 October 2013 met with trade unions and employers' organisations (social partners) for talks on how to strengthen the social dimension of the EU and the euro area, including by better monitoring employment and social trends in future.

The social partners joined European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė (representing the rotating EU presidency) ahead of an EU summit.

The talks focused on the Commission's recent Communication on strengthening the social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union, which proposed to improve the EU's economic governance system by, for example, creating a scoreboard of employment and social indicators and further involving the social partners to ensure an effective social dialogue at the EU and national levels.

ESO: Background information: The future of the Economic and Monetary Union: Commission proposes ideas to deepen social integration http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-the-future-of-the-economic-and-monetary-union-commission-proposes-ideas-to-deepen-social-integration/

ESO: Background information: Detecting key employment and social imbalances and challenges in the EMU http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-detecting-key-employment-and-social-imbalances-and-challenges-in-the-emu/

European Commission: RAPID: Speech, SPEECH/13/851: Statement by President Barroso at the Tripartite Social Summit http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-851_en.pdf

Council of the European Union: Press Release: Background: Tripartite Social Summit - The social dimension of the EMU/EU http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/139134.pdf

Council of the European Union: Press Release: PRES/13/441: Remarks by the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy following the Tripartite Social Summit http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/139170.pdf

---