Press Conference on the Presentation of the ICSE REPORT by Progressive Society S&D Co-Chairs Iratxe GARCÍA and Eric ANDRIEU.
The Great Shift sets out 10 game-changing policy proposals, among 242 policy recommendations and concrete actions to transform today’s crisis-ridden societies into sustainable and more equal and fair communities. These policy proposals will feed into the election manifesto of the European Socialists and Democrats for the 2024 elections, as well as into the ongoing legislative work of the S&D Group in the European Parliament.
Social democracy is the political force to bring together social and climate justice. Low-income households must not shoulder the costs of the green and digital transitions through job losses, higher prices or taxes. Our ambition is a just transition to a sustainable society, lifting everyone up.
The forward-thinking policy proposals put forward in The Great Shift include reforming the Stability and Growth Pact into a European Pact for Sustainable Well-Being, a biodiversity law to protect plants and animals, a binding European anti-poverty law to eradicate poverty by 2050, an EU net-wealth tax to combat growing inequalities and finance public investment, guaranteeing energy as a basic social right to counteract exploding energy prices, factoring in the carbon footprint of imported goods, a Responsible Capitalism Act to regulate the social and ecological responsibility of companies doing business in the Single Market, as well as Climate Risk Insurance for low-income households in cases of damage caused by climate change.
