La Commissione europea ha adottato un pacchetto di raccomandazioni riguardanti misure di bilancio e riforme economiche per rafforzare la stabilità finanziaria, rilanciare la crescita e creare occupazione in tutta l'UE. Le raccomandazioni specifiche per paese tengono conto della situazione di ciascuno Stato membro. La Commissione ha formulato anche raccomandazioni per la zona euro considerata nel suo insieme e ha illustrato l'azione politica a livello di UE che, a suo parere, deve integrare le misure nazionali per arrivare a un'ambiziosa iniziativa UE per la crescita a due livelli. La Commissione ha presentato inoltre le conclusioni di dodici esami approfonditi nell'ambito della procedura per gli squilibri macroeconomici e ha rivolto raccomandazioni al Consiglio riguardanti la procedura per i disavanzi eccessivi.
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2012 country-specific recommendations in the context of the European Semester: Frequently asked questions - What has been adopted today?
The Commission has adopted a package of proposals concluding the second European Semester of economic policy coordination and giving guidance for national policies in 2012-2013. The package consists of a Communication outlining the main findings and concrete measures to boost economic growth and job creation, as well as of 28 Council Recommendations, one for each Member State, with country-specific guidance on economic policy, such as public finances and structural reforms and one for the euro area. For twelve EU Member States1, these policy recommendations also include guidance on how to address macroeconomic imbalances, according to the new mechanism implemented as part of the so-called 6-Pack legislation.
The basis for these proposals is a thorough assessment of the implementation of last year's policy recommendations, combined with detailed analysis of the national reform programmes and stability or convergence programmes2 that Member States submitted in the second half of April. The analysis underpinning the recommendations is presented in 28 staff working documents (again, one for each Member State and one for the euro area). In addition, the Commission carried out twelve in-depth reviews for those Member States that were identified as warranting closer inspection in the Alert Mechanism Report earlier this year (IP/12/132).
Once these recommendations are endorsed at the June European Council and formally adopted by the Council of Ministers in July, they will help Member States to prepare and adopt their national economic policies and budgets for 2012-2013.
In parallel with the European Semester recommendations, the Commission has also adopted a number of new steps under the Excessive Deficit Procedure of the Stability and Growth Pact. These steps reflect the latest developments in Member States that are expected to bring their government deficit below the 3% of GDP reference value of the Treaty. 3
What was the purpose of the in-depth reviews?
The in-depth reviews are part of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) which was introduced to prevent and correct macroeconomic imbalances and which is being implemented for the first time this year.1 They cover twelve Member States, which were identified in the Alert Mechanism Report (AMR) of 14 February 2012 (IP/12/132, MEMO/12/104) as warranting further economic analysis in order to determine whether macroeconomic imbalances exist or risk emerging. These Member States are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.2 Each of the twelve in-depth reviews examines the origin, nature and severity of possible macroeconomic imbalances. They assess whether the country is affected by an imbalance or not, and if it is, what the nature of the imbalance is.
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