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Suppress unanimity rules in social & fiscal matters in the EU Published

Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 13/8/2018 13:14
Social policy - Social rights, Policy domain, Institutions, Public Finance - Taxation

In the current state of the Treaties governing the European Union, the rules on the following fields of social policy are subject to unanimity decision by the Council (representing Member States), with no intervention by the Parliament (TFEU Art.153(2)) :
(c) social security and social protection of workers;
(d) protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated;
(f) representation and collective defence of the interests of workers and employers;
(g) conditions of employment for third-country nationals legally residing in Union territory.

Likewise, the approximation of fiscal rules regarding indirect taxation is subject to unanimous decision by the Council (TFEU, Art. 113).

Requiring unanimous decisions in these key aspects of social and fiscal policy is a means to block any evolution, and to have a minority of one Member State (e.g. a tax haven) preventing a long-needed decision wanted by all others.

An existing provision in the Treaties (TEU Art.48(7)) states that the European Council or the Council may allow decisions that are currently subject to unanimity rules to be adopted by qualified majority - with no change in the Treaties.

I propose that this clause be mobilised to suppress the unanimity requirements placed on the EU decisions on these key social and fiscal matters.

TEU: Treaty on European Union, accessible in all official languages of the EU at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12012M%2FTXT

TFEU: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, accessible in all official languages of the EU at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12012E%2FTXT

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