#COVID19 should not be remembered as the #fragmentation of the EU. Today, the @EU_Commission gave recommendations to member states on which actions to take for an #inclusive recovery.

In the the social recommendations which were given to countries today (1/28)

Austria. Ensure equal access to #education & increased #DigitalLearning. Focus investment on the #green and #digital transition. @AustriaatEU (2/28)

Belgium - Provide #liquidity to assist SMEs & the self-employed and improve the business environment. Promote effective labour market measures & foster #skills development. @BelgiumEU (3/28)

Bulgaria - Ensure social protection & essential services for all. Improve access to #RemoteWork & promote #DigitalSkills. Improve minimum income scheme. Minimise administrative burden for companies: improve public administration & reinforce digital gov. @BGPermRepEU (4/28)

Croatia - Improve #unemployment benefits & minimum income schemes. Increase access to digital infrastructure and services. Promote the acquisition of #skills. Maintain measures to provide #liquidity to SMEs and the self-employed. @EU2020HR (5/28)

Cyprus - Provide adequate #income replacement & access to social protection for all. Strengthen public employment services, promote #flexibleworking arrangements and improve labour market relevance of #education and training. @CyprusinEU (6/28)

Czechia - Support employment through active labour market policies, provision of #skills (incl. #digital skills) & access to #DigitalLearning. Support #SMEs: ensure liquidity, reduce administrative burden & improve e-government. @CZECHIAinEU (7/28)

Denmark - Enhance the resilience of the health system, incl. by ensuring sufficient critical medical products & addressing the shortage of #healthworkers. Promote private investment to foster the economic #recovery. @DKinEU (8/28)

Estonia - Improve accessibility & resilience of the health system, incl. by addressing shortages of #healthworkers, & ensuring supply of critical medical products. Strengthen social safety net, incl. by broadening the coverage of #unemployment benefits. @EEinEU (9/28)

Finland - Support #employment & support active labour market policies. Take measures to provide #liquidity to the real economy, in particular to #SMEs. @FinlandinEU (10/28)

France - Mitigate the employment and #social impact of the crisis, including by promoting skills and active support for all #jobseekers. Strengthen the resilience of the health system also by ensuring balanced distribution of #healthworkers. @RPFranceUE (11/28)

Germany - Mobilise resources & strengthen the #resilience of the health system, incl. by deploying #eHealth. Promote private investment to
foster the economic #recovery & focus investment on the #green and digital transition. @GermanyintheEU (12/28)

Greece - Mitigate employment & #social impacts of the crisis, incl. by implementing measures such as #ShortTerm work schemes & ensuring effective activation support. Quickly provide #liquidity in particular to #SMEs most affected by crisis. @GreeceInEU (13/28)

Hungary - Address shortages of #healthworkers. Protect employment through #ShortTerm work schemes & extend duration of #unemployment benefits. Improve #social assistance & ensure access to essential services and quality #education for all. (14/28)

Ireland - Support employment through developing skills. Address the risk of #DigitalDivide, incl. in the #education sector. Increase the provision of social and affordable #housing. @IrelandRepBru (15/28)

Italy - Provide adequate #income replacement & access to social #protection, esp. for #atypical workers. Mitigate the employment impact of the crisis, incl. through
flexible working arrangements. Strengthen #DistanceLearning & digital skills. @ItalyinEU (16/28)

Latvia - Support the groups most affected by the crisis, incl. with #income replacement & a stronger social #safety net. Mitigate the employment impact of the crisis, incl. through flexible working arrangements & #skills. @LVinEU (17/28)

Lithuania - Ensure coverage & adequacy of the social #safety net and improve the effectiveness of the tax and benefit system to protect against #poverty. Support #liquidity for businesses, esp. SMEs & export-oriented sectors. @LithuaniaInEU (18/28)

Luxembourg - Ensure appropriate availability of #healthworkers. Accelerate #reforms to improve the governance of the health system and #eHealth. Mitigate the employment impact of the crisis, esp. for people in a difficult labour market position. @RPUE_LU (19/28)

Malta - Consolidate #ShortTerm work arrangements & ensure adequacy of #unemployment protection for all workers. Strengthen the quality & inclusiveness of
#education and #skills development. @MaltainEU (20/28)

Netherlands - Promote adequate social
protection for the self-employed. Strengthen the resilience of the health system, incl. by tackling the
existing shortages of #healthworkers. @NLatEU (21/28)

Poland - Enhance flexible & #ShortTerm working arrangements. Better target social benefits & ensure access to those in need. Promote digital #transformation of companies and public admin. Continue efforts to secure liquidity for #companies. @PLPermRepEU (22/28)

Portugal - Prioritise measures to preserve #jobs. Guarantee sufficient social #protection & income support. Support the use of #digital tech to ensure equal access to quality #education and training & to boost companies' #competitiveness. (23/28)

Romania - Provide adequate income replacement & extend social #protection and access to essential services for all. Develop #flexible working arrangements. Strengthen #skills, #DigitalLearning & equal access to education. @romaniaineu (24/28)

Slovakia - Provide adequate #income replacement & ensure access to social #protection and essential services for all. Strengthen digital skills & ensure equal access to quality #education. @SLOVAKIAinEU (25/28)

Slovenia - Provide adequate #income replacement and social protection. Mitigate the #employment impact of the crisis, including through enhancing short-time work schemes and through flexible working arrangements. @SLOtoEU (26/28)

Spain - Support #employment through arrangements to preserve jobs, hiring incentives and #skills development. Reinforce unemployment protection. Improve coverage and adequacy of minimum #income schemes & family support, as well as access to #digital learning. @SpainMFA (27/28)

Sweden - Ensure the resilience of the #health system. Foster #innovation and support education and #skills development. Focus investment on the #green and #digital transition. @SwedeninEU (28/28)