18/06 – Among others, Eurocities statement on the SIP calls for stronger partnership working between different levels of government and the EU and for full involvement of cities in the EU-level mutual learning activities.
The Social Investment Package (SIP) recommendations offer strategic guidance to member states on improving the effectiveness, efficiency and adequacy of social policies. Our recommendations seek to ensure that the SIP will tackle social exclusion, rising poverty and increasing unemployment, especially amongst the young and the most vulnerable people in Europe – problems that are undoubtedly concentrated in cities.