The use of indicators in the EU policy making is quite common. Some of the current popular scoreboards, or indicators, are: the European Semester Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) Scoreboard, the Social Scoreboard used in the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard, and the diverse indicators that can be used in the context of the Governance Regulation of the Energy Union.
Our focus: the MIP Scoreboard, aimed at indicating risks or actual macroeconomic imbalances in Member States. Our analysis of the fit of the European Semester for delivering the EU Green Deal suggests that a climate perspective is missing in the current MIP Scoreboard. In fact, macroeconomic imbalances could easily be caused by inaction towards the mitigation or adaptation to climate change (amongst other actions needed for the EU Green Deal).
Discover our suggestions on how to integrate two new indicators in the MIP Scoreboard in this analysis.