ENSIE Memorandum European Parliament Elections 2024

ENSIE is the European Network of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), which gathers 31 local, regional and national networks from 21 countries from the EU.

In 2021 the Social Economy Action Plan was adopted, containing about 60 actions to improve the social economy ecosystem within the EU and beyond. Furthermore, WISEs contribute to different policy agenda’s such as the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), the European Skills Agenda, the Cohesion Policy, the Just Transition, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Green Deal and important processes such as the EU semester. Europe has been faced with a series of crises, namely the COVID-19 global pandemic, the armed conflict in Ukraine, the cost-of-living crisis, and the worsening climate crisis. Strong welfare states can mitigate the damage and protect livelihoods. ENSIE calls upon the future European Parliament and Commission to take their responsibility to tackle the multitude of challenges ahead of us.

Therefore, ENSIE wishes to put forward four points:

1. Foster the collaboration and exchange between the EU institutions and WISEs.

2. Recognition of WISEs as a specific type of social economy enterprise. 3. Development of an enabling framework for the social economy and WISEs.

4. Put WISEs at the heart of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR).