{"id":17088,"date":"2019-05-09T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=17088"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T07:09:20","slug":"strength-in-unity-eu-leaders-to-look-ahead-to-common-future-at-sibiu-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/strength-in-unity-eu-leaders-to-look-ahead-to-common-future-at-sibiu-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength in unity: EU leaders to look ahead to common future at Sibiu summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 9 May 2019, EU leaders will meet in Sibiu, as suggested by President Juncker in his 2017 State of the Union address, to discuss the EU’s next strategic agenda for the period 2019-2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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They will exchange views on the challenges and priorities for the EU for the years to come. The current agenda was agreed in June 2014 by the European Council and was shaped into the 10 political priorities of the Juncker Commission. Five years on, efforts to deliver on those priorities have brought tangible results for citizens, despite unpredicted difficulties along the way, which continue to pose serious challenges for our Union. Building on the policy recommendations for how Europe can shape its future presented last week,<\/a> the Commission is today looking back at what has been accomplished over the past five years.<\/p>\n

A strong track record<\/h2>\n

The Juncker Commission’s 10 priorities focused on the things that matter most to Europeans: bringing back jobs, growth and investment, strengthening social fairness, managing migration, mitigating security threats, unlocking the potential of the digital and energy transitions, making the EU a stronger global actor, and reinforcing transparency and democratic legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By summer 2018, the Juncker Commission had tabled all of the legislative proposals it committed to at the start of its mandate. In total, the Commission made 471 new legislative proposals and carried over an additional 44 presented by previous Commissions. Of these, 348 proposals have been adopted or agreed by the European Parliament and the Council during the current mandate.<\/p>\n

Looking forward<\/h2>\n

Last week, the European Commission set out a number of policy recommendations for how Europe can shape its future in an increasingly multipolar and uncertain world. The Commission recommended that the EU’s strategic agenda for 2019-2024 focus on 5 key dimensions:<\/p>\n