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20//11/2008
Barcelona process: Euro-mediterranean conference on employment and work highlighted importance of social dialogue
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and its Euromed Trade Union Forum participated in the first Euro-Mediterranean ministerial conference on employment and work in Marrakech, Morocco, on 9-10 November 2008. ETUC welcomed the adoption of a framework of action, which takes into account the social dimension of the Euro-Mediterranean project and which provides for the creation of a Euromed social dialogue forum.
31//10/2008
Do not let the real economy down!
The autumn 2008 report from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on the economic situation sounds the alarm regarding the real economy. The economy will continue to decline over next year and unemployment will rise further. With inflation expected to start falling rapidly, policy should be extremely careful in avoiding to get trapped into a Japanese-style deflation. ETUC therefore calls for a different policy mix: both fiscal and monetary policies need to turn expansionary; robust investment programmes need to be set up to modernise the economy and this is to be accompanied by deep interest rate cuts.
30//10/2008
Asbestos should be covered by the Rotterdam Convention
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is concerned by the direction taken by the negotiations under way on the inclusion of chrysotile asbestos on the list of substances covered by the Rotterdam Convention. This week, the countries that signed the Convention met up in Rome to decide whether or not to add two pesticides and chrysotile asbestos to the list.
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