CEEP supports Juncker’s recipe for a genuine EU answer to the refugee crisis

Following President Juncker’s speech on the refugee crisis during the State of the European Union, CEEP President Hans-Joachim Reck and CEEP General-Secretary Valeria Ronzitti commented:

The approach proposed by Mr Juncker to tackle the current refugee crisis, based primarily on the implementation of an emergency mechanism to relocate 160.000 refugees and a European Agenda on Migration, is the right one, as all the Member States need to take their share of responsibility to bring a joint European answer.

 

Gathered in CEEP, representatives of employers and providers of public services are also aware of their own responsibility, as public services infrastructures can play a substantial role to support the integration of the refugees in the EU. Efficient and effective public administration, housing, healthcare and education infrastructures, among others, are indeed essential assets to ensure a genuine integration within the EU Social Model.

 

Whatever their sector of activities, public services are indeed key to support the consolidation of the European Social Model, which EU decision-makers should keep in sight at all times.”