Response / reaction
ERGO Network Response to the Competitiveness Compass and Draft JER 2025: The Competitiveness Compass and draft Joint Employment Report 2025 – What’s in it for Europe’s Roma?
10 February 2025 English Response / reaction
Summary
ERGO Network's response critiques the Commission's Competitiveness Compass for sidelining social policy and dropping any mention of Roma, poverty, or discrimination in favor of pure economic competitiveness. It welcomes the draft Joint Employment Report's multiple Roma references, but flags the total absence of health, housing, antigypsyism, and civil society dialogue across both documents.
Topics
Employment
Geographic focus
Europe
Publication details
- Author(s)
- ERGO Network
- Organisation
- ERGO Network
- Publication date
- 10 February 2025
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Response / reaction
- Format
- Language
- English
- Countries
- Europe
Suggested citation
ERGO Network (2025). ERGO Network Response to the Competitiveness Compass and Draft JER 2025: The Competitiveness Compass and draft Joint Employment Report 2025 – What’s in it for Europe’s Roma?. Response / reaction. ERGO Network. Retrieved from https://ergonetwork.org/publication/ergo-network-response-to-the-competitiveness-compass-and-draft-jer-2025-the-competitiveness-compass-and-draft-joint-employment-report-2025-whats-in-it-for-europes-roma/
Downloads & resources
- Full report (PDF)Download
Related publications
Synthesis Report and Case-studies: Roma Grassroots Perspectives on Poverty Alleviation: Impact of Access to Quality Education and Employment as well as Antigypsyism on Roma People’s Economic Situation
September 2018
antigypsyism Education Employment
Presents grassroots case studies on how access to education and employment, and the impact of antigypsyism, shape Roma people's economic situations, centring lived experience in poverty analysis.
Employment/Hiring Capacity for Roma Workers among Employers of a Medium-Sized Hungarian Town
April 2019
Employment
A localised study examining employer attitudes and hiring practices toward Roma workers in a Hungarian town, providing ground-level evidence on labour market discrimination.
ERGO Network Response to the Draft Joint Employment Report 2021: European Commission Releases Proposal for Joint Employment Report 2021 – What’s in it for Europe’s Roma?
February 2021
Employment
Welcomes multiple explicit references to Roma in the draft JER (published separately from the ASGS this cycle) but laments they are confined to education; notes a positive paragraph supporting civil society participation in policy design.