European Parliament
Raül Romeva i Rueda  (Verts/ALE ),
in writing.
– In favour. On 23 November 2011, the Commission presented its 2012 Annual Growth Survey (AGS) (COM(2011) 815), which marked the opening of the second European Semester of economic governance. The AGS sets out what the Commission believes must be the EU’s priorities for the coming 12 months in terms of budgetary, economic, employment and social policies and reforms. In this framework, the AGS calls for national and EU efforts to be concentrated on five priorities in the areas of fiscal policy, financial sector stabilisation, growth and competitiveness, employment and social consequences of the crisis, and public administration. The AGS’s analysis and main messages are underpinned by four annexes: (1) a progress report on Europe 2020, (2) a macro-economic report, (3) an employment report and (4) a report on tax policies.

