The European Semester is a key process for monitoring progress towards agreed EU objectives, as well as for influencing reforms and investments at national level. Originally, it was created as a tool focused on the coordination of macroeconomic policies in 2011. In recent years, it has increasingly also become the central process for monitoring and steering the implementation of employment, social, and environmental policies at both EU and national levels. This is particularly the case since the incorporation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (Social Pillar) and its Action Plan.
