Roxana Mînzatu

Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness 

As Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Roxana Mînzatu’s task is to guide the overall work on strengthening Europe’s human capital, from skills and education to culture and sport. 

She is responsible for:

• guiding the work on the European Pillar of Social Rights to tackle the skills and labour gaps, focusing on training and education
• helping to build Union of equality to create a fairer society and social model
• guiding the work on supporting young people and ensuring fairness between generations, through Erasmus+, Youth Policy Dialogues, better support for the mental health of our youth, strengthening our European Sport Model and promoting culture
• embedding a new culture of preparedness to help people adapt to change and risks 

Read more about the European Year of Skills.

The European Pillar of Social Rights 

Roxana Mînzatu is in charge of the social rights and jobs, skills and education portfolio. She will ensure our social market economy supports the transformation of our industries and societies, and the completion of the Single market, delivering quality jobs, more equality and lifting more people out of poverty.

She is responsible for:

• leading the work on the European Pillar of Social Rights to reach our 2030 social headline targets
• developing a Quality Jobs Roadmap to ensure a just transition for all
• delivering a new Pact for European Social Dialogue 
• leading the work on the first-ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and contribute to the European Affordable Housing Plan
• focusing on the impact of digitalisation in the world of work
• improving Europe’s approach to occupational health and safety
• creating a more coherent framework for addressing long-term care workforce challenges
• implementing European funds that support social rights and a fair transition
• strengthening the Child Guarantee to prevent and fight social exclusion
• exploring ways to further facilitate labour mobility
• contributing to the European Semester 

Read more about the European Pillar of Social Rights.

A Union of Skills

Roxana Mînzatu is leading the work on the Union of Skills, focusing on investment, adult and lifelong learning, vocational education and training, skill retention and recognition and enhancing skills intelligence.

She is responsible for:

• working on the European Education Area to drive a common approach to skills development, learning mobility, quality and inclusiveness, and strengthening Erasmus+
• working on the European Degree and supporting European Universities Alliances
• preparing a Skills Portability Initiative to ensure cross-country skills recognition
• creating a Talent Pool to attract skills matching EU labour market needs
• developing a European Strategy for Vocational Education and Training
• developing an Action Plan on Basic Skills and a STEM Education Strategic Plan to address two of the most striking shortfalls
• building on the work in the Pact for Skills to upskill and reskill more workers
• developing an EU Teachers Agenda to improve working conditions, training and career prospects, and explore a European Schools Alliance for better cross-border cooperation and mobility

Read more about skills and qualifications in the EU.

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Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.

• Meetings with Executive Vice-President Mînzatu
• Meetings with Executive Vice-President Mînzatu's Cabinet members
• Missions of Executive Vice-President Mînzatu

European Parliament hearings

Read Executive Vice-President Mînzatu's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.

Declaration of interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Member of the Commission publishes a declaration of interests. The declarations of the Commissioners-designate can be found on the European Parliament’s website, where they were published before the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners.

The declarations of interests of the new Members of the Commission will be updated and published here at the beginning of 2025 in line with Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. Machine-readable versions of all declarations will also be made available in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. The declarations of interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and Annex 1 of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners.