Mapping and analysing the support to employment and social policies in the proposals for the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework

EU funding for employment and social objectives has long been a substantial component of multi-annual financial frameworks. The proposals for the next MFF will see a new approach in which funding for these objectives will be encompassed within National and Regional Partnership Plans.

Our Professorial Research Fellow Iain Begg has co-authored a new study for the European Parliament's Committee on Employment (EMPL), which compares the proposals for the current and next MFFs, the relevant legislation and expected governance reforms.

It pays particular attention to the ramifications for the European Pillar of Social Rights and concludes with a set of recommendations for the European Parliament to consider in responding to the MFF proposal.