At its meeting in Brussels on 17–18 March 2009, the ETUC Executive Committee adopted the following declaration, entitled ‘Urgently wanted: European leadership to fight the new depression’. The declaration was addressed to the European Spring Summit of March 2009 and sent to all EU heads of state and governments. Urgently wanted: European leadership to fight the new depression Part I: What we are facing: A recession turning into a depression Economic forecasts are bad and even getting worse. (...)