Towards a Social Compact for Europe Since 2008, the austerity measures have deepened the crisis. The ETUC is deeply concerned at the dramatic rise in unemployment in Europe, and the increasing inequality and poverty which undermines the European Social Model. Europe needs to change course drastically. European cooperation, not downwards adjustment based on wage cuts and bad jobs, is the way out of the crisis Meeting at the Executive Committee, on 5-6 June, Europe’s trade union leaders (...)