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  • 23.10.2013 Document

    ETUC Statement to the European Council: A European recovery plan is urgent

    Brussels, 23/10/2013 The current multi-faceted crisis exploded five years ago essentially in the financial sector; it triggered an economic and then a sovereign debt crisis. To combat this crisis EU leaders have adopted and implemented policies through brutal austerity measures and internal devaluation. This exacerbated the crisis, destroyed functioning economic structures, reduced consumption, increased inequalities and poverty, attacked wage levels, dramatically raised unemployment, jeopardised social cohesion and the support to the EU project.
  • 19.06.2013 Document

    The Social Investment Package

    Brussels, 23/04/2013 Key messages; • The key concern is that the EU needs real social investment. Social benefits bring value to individuals and to society and therefore it is justified to dedicate adequate budget resources to deliver social benefits and services to the people who are in need and entitled to social rights. Europe needs a real investment package to promote growth, employment and ensure economic and social cohesion. The ETUC has called for an additional investment equivalent to 1-2% of European GDP.
  • 05.03.2013 Document

    ETUC Declaration on the proposed roadmap for a social dimension of the EMU

    Brussels, 05/03/2013 ETUC Declaration The ETUC considers that the proposal to discuss a social dimension of the EMU is too restrictive. Our commitment to the process of European integration depends on the fact that Europe is not a free trade zone, but an area whose objectives are economic and social progress. Therefore a discussion on the social dimension of the EMU is only acceptable if it triggers social progress in the whole of the European Union.
  • 05.03.2013 Document

    Declaration of the Executive Committee on the proposed roadmap for a social dimension of the EMU, including social dialogue

    Brussels, 05/03/2013 The ETUC considers that the proposal to discuss a social dimension of the EMU is too restrictive. Our commitment to the process of European integration depends on the fact that Europe is not a free trade zone, but an area whose objectives are economic and social progress. Therefore a discussion on the social dimension of the EMU is only acceptable if it triggers social progress in the whole of the European Union.
  • 17.10.2012 Document

    ETUC day of action and solidarity for a Social Compact for Europe

    Brussels, 17/10/2012 1. The ETUC Executive Committee meeting on 17 October 2012 call for a day of action and solidarity on 14 November 2012, including strikes, demonstrations, rallies and other actions, mobilising the European trade union Movement behind ETUC policies as set down in the Social Compact for Europe.
  • 26.04.2012 Document

    ETUC Declaration on the Commission proposals for a Monti II Regulation and Enforcement Directive of the Posting of Workers Directive

    Brussels, 19/04/2012 The Commission package on the posting of workers adopted on 21 March 2012 does not strike the right balance between protecting workers and facilitating cross-border service provision. The ETUC rejects the proposal for a Monti II Regulation and calls on the Commission to revise the Posting of Workers Directive.
  • 27.03.2012 Document

    ETUC Action Programme on Gender Equality

    Brussels, 06-07/03/2012
 
 Introduction 

 

 The EU has made significant progress over the last 50 years in promoting greater equality between women and men in society and in the labour market. Since its foundation EU equal treatment legislation has contributed and will contribute to equal participation of women and men in Europe’s economy and society. 

 With the new mandate for the period 2010-2014 the Commission adopted different EU instruments to deal with gender equality: 

  • 07.03.2012 Document

    ETUC Declaration on Greece

    Brussels, 07/03/2012 The ETUC Executive Committee meeting on 7 March 2012, expresses its full solidarity with the working people of Greece who are gravely and irreversibly affected by losses of jobs and income that erodes their ability to address the negative impact of the crisis.
  • 25.01.2012 Document

    ETUC Declaration on the "Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union"

    Brussels, 25/01/2012
  • 16.12.2011 Document

    ETUC Declaration on "EY2012: European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity"

    Brussels, 07-08/12/2011
  • 16.12.2011 Document

    Renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

    Brussels, 07-08/12/2011 Introduction
  • 24.10.2011 Document

    ETUC Declaration on the 50th anniversary of the European Social charter

    Brussels, 19-20/10/2011
  • 21.10.2011 Document

    ETUC Declaration on the current economic situation

    Brussels, 19-20/10/2011 An extremely dangerous situation The economic situation of the Eurozone has gone from bad to worse during the last period; it reached extremely dangerous levels during the last weeks and days. At the same time, the social situation is deteriorating dramatically: inequalities and poverty are rising; unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, has reached intolerable levels, over 20% in most countries and over 40% in Spain and Greece.
  • 27.09.2011 Document

    ETUC and Eurocadres joint contribution to the Green Paper "Modernising the Professional Qualifications" Directive (2005/36/EC)

    Brussels, 2011
  • 30.06.2011 Document

    Greece needs a Solidarity Pact

    Brussels, 28-29/06/2011 ETUC Declaration for download To download the ETUC Declaration, please click on the icon below.
  • 21.01.2010 Document

    "EU 2020" An initial ETUC Commentary

    Brussels, 15/01/2010 Declaration for download To download the ETUC note, please click on the respective link below.
  • 10.12.2009 Document

    ETUC Declaration on 2010 – European Year for combating poverty and Social exclusion

    Brussels, 01-02/12/2009 1. The Lisbon Strategy was supposed to enable poverty to be eradicated in Europe by 2010: what is the latest? One of the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy was the eradication of poverty in Europe by 2010. What is the situation now? 1.1 Poverty and social exclusion: an evil entrenched in European society
  • 21.10.2009 Document

    The climate change, the new industrial policies and the ways out of the crisis

    Brussels, 20-21/10/2009
 
 

 

 

 

 

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  • 08.07.2009 Document

    ETUC Executive Committee 8 July 2009: declaration on the Working Time Directive

    Brussels, 08/07/2009 The European trade Union confederation (ETUC) Executive Committee agrees that there should be a period of reflection before any future revision of the directive. However, concerning the current directive, the ETUC Executive Committee strongly calls for action to be taken to ensure that the Directive is being properly and fully implemented. Specifically, the ETUC calls on the European Commission to initiate infringement proceedings against Member States who are significantly failing to implement the working time directive.
  • 04.11.2008 Document

    ETUC response to ECJ judgements Viking and Laval

    Brussels, 04-05/03/2008
  • 04.04.2008 Document

    Joint declaration on the EU climate change and energy package with a view to employment

    Brussels, 04/04/2008
  • 05.04.2006 Document

    To bolster social cohesion, ETUC wants an ambitious and efficient OMC applied to social protection and social inclusion

    Brussels, 14-15 March 2006 1.1 According to ETUC, bolstering social cohesion and devising 'content' for the European Social Model, which consists mainly of high-quality, high-level social protection systems and a resolute battle against social exclusion, are European ambitions that need to be implemented by the Member States in connection with the streamlined open method of coordination. These ambitions will be reaffirmed at the forthcoming Spring Summit.
  • 17.03.2005 Document

    ETUC note: Myths and facts about working longer hours in Europe

    Brussels, 17/03/2005 This ETUC note is to provide: •  correct information on what is really happening in some countries concerning longer working hours. The main conclusion to this is: ‘not much’. Aside from some isolated companies, there is no general tendency to switch to longer hours. And in those companies where longer working hours do get introduced, employers have to grant important tough concessions (for example: job guarantees);
  • 15.03.2005 Document

    Towards a pro-active EU policy on migration and integration

    Brussels, 15-16 March 2005
  • 08.11.2004 Document

    Declaration on Temporary Agency Work Directive

    Adopted at the ETUC 10th Statutory Congress, 26-29/05/2003 Delegates at the 10th ETUC Congress, meeting in Prague from May 26-29, expresses their strong discontentment and incomprehension at the risk of a stalemate in the adoption of the proposed directive on temporary agency work, and at the risk of its major distortion by a certain number of Member States : The United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Germany.

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