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The Foresight Report was an important first step.

To make mainstreaming resilience a success story, it is crucial to get diverse groups of stakeholders on board. The Covid-19 has certainly shown the importance of having such capacities. Above all it is a Europe that has capacities to ensure wellbeing and environmental protection in times of change – through strong social security systems, social and technical creativity and innovation or through robust value chains. A propserous Europe is not only sustainable and fair. Rather than looking at policy objectives, resilience asks what capacities are needed to ensure key societal objectives are met when responding to shocks.

With the Foresight Report, the Commission has initiated an important discussion on the objectives of policymaking in the EU following the Covid-19 pandemic – focused on resilience.Ī new paradigm centred around resilience entails a shift of perspective. For a long time, the Commission’s objectives mainly focused on market integration, economic growth, competitiveness and efficiency.