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  • A new social impetus for the Internal Market Strategy 2010-2015

    A new social impetus for the Internal Market Strategy 2010-2015

    Brussels, 09-10/03/2010 The impact of the internal market on Europe's social model prompts certain concerns. The crisis has brought cruelly to light the weaknesses of the strategy based on deregulation and liberalisation. If the European Union fails to safeguard its social achievements and to reconcile internal market rules with workers’ rights, further development of the internal market could prove more difficult. Protectionist reflexes will become more pronounced and the single market will be confronted with more distortions {{
    Document Published on 17.03.2010
  • ETUC Resolution - Solidarity for Greece

    ETUC Resolution - Solidarity for Greece

    Brussels, 09-10/03/2010 The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Executive Committee members attending the meeting of 9 & 10 March 2010, express their solidarity with the President of the Greek Confederation of Labour, GSEE, Yannis Panagopoulos, who was brutally attacked by perpetrators alien to the trade union movement. They note with concern that such condemnable actions inevitably bring to mind the rise of fascism and hope that the democratically elected Greek Government will swiftly bring the culprits to justice.
    Document Published on 11.03.2010
  • Resolution on the ETUC and the Lisbon Treaty

    Resolution on the ETUC and the Lisbon Treaty

    Brussels, 01-02/12/2009 {{ }}1. On 1st December 2009, the new Lisbon Treaty came into force. The new Treaty is a better one than the current provisions of the Nice Treaty but it does little to advance social progress.
    Document Published on 03.12.2009
  • ETUC response to the second consultation phase by the social partners on active inclusion

    ETUC response to the second consultation phase by the social partners on active inclusion

    Brussels, 4–5 March 2008 On 17 October 2007, the Commission published a new Communication, entitled Modernising social protection for greater social justice and economic cohesion: taking forward the active inclusion of people furthest from the labour market (COM (2007) 620 final), thus launching a second consultation phase of the social partners.
    Document Published on 04.12.2008