Question 1 – The added value of the OMC

To what extent has the OMC helped to achieve progress in the national policy-making process and at the European Level?

• How and to what extent has the OMC influenced or helped to advance the national policy agenda?

• Have recent reforms and policy initiatives benefited from experience in other countries?

• Is a reflection on the experiences of other EU countries normally carried out in the process leading to the adoption of a new policy measure?

• Has the OMC been an efficient and effective method in view of achieving the common objectives that were established for it?

• To what extent has the OMC contributed to develop a common understanding of the challenges to social inclusion and to pension sustainability in the EU? Has it also contributed to a greater convergence of policy responses?

Question 2 – The common objectives

Are the common objectives still in line with policy priorities and do they still address the most important challenges as identified in the most recent Joint Reports?

• Have the objectives addressed all priority policy issues or have there been major gaps or blind spots?

• Has too much attention been devoted to a specific issue (in relation to its political importance)? Are there any objectives that might have become obsolete?

• Among the common objectives, across the different policy sectors, has there been overlap?

• Have the common objectives been formulated in a too general or abstract way/just about right/in too detailed or narrow way?