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21//02/2012

Greece: bailout comes with drastic conditions for the population

The new € 237 billion rescue plan for Greece does admittedly save the country from defaulting on its payment, but it does nothing to resolve definitively and positively the plight of Greece’citizens and workers. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) regrets that this aid has beengranted at the price of an unbearable burden on the Greek population.

21//02/2012

ETUC expresses alarm at attacks against UGTT

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) today expressed deep concern at reports of attacks against the Tunisian national trade union centre UGTT, including firebombing of local offices.

21//02/2012

Burma: the time is not yet ripe for total revision of EU sanctions policy

ETUC General Secretary Bernadette Ségol has today written to Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, saying that while positive change is currently afoot in Burma/Myanmar, the time is not yet ripe for a major revision of policy on sanctions.