04/07/2006 - Participants' presentation

04/07/2006 - Report Seminar Riga - Report Seminar Budapest - Report Seminar Brussels - Final Conference Prague

20/02/2007

Brussels, 15/05/2006 - Agreement (Different language versions available) - ETUC Interpretation Guide - Implementation reports - Regional and closing seminars For more information, please contact : ETUC Advisor: Stefan Clauwaert Tel: +32 2 2240504

Brussels, 28/06/2006

Rome, 28/06/2006 To be checked against delivery President, delegates, fellow guests, thank you for this invitation to tell you about the ETUC's ambitions for a stronger Europe and for a strong ETUC. For us, Europe is essential to our collective futures. An ambitious, powerful ETUC must be a central ingredient.

Brussels, 26/06/2006 A 'central theme' of the next six months should be encouraging investment in innovation and technology across Europe - following Finland's example - to boost the supply of high quality jobs, say the unions.

Brussels, 20/06/2006 John Monks, ETUC General Secretary, said: “It is outrageous that profit-chasing European companies are threatening to disinvest if very basic standards are introduced in China. Rather than engaging in a race to the bottom they should respect, throughout the world, standards that we expect them to apply at home.”

Brussels, 16/06/2006 The ETUC Executive Committee has reiterated its support for the Constitution while stressing the need to strengthen its social dimension, for instance by adding a Social Protocol on social and economic governance.

Grenoble, 15/06/2006

Brussels, 09/06/2006 Says ETUC General Secretary John Monks: “We recognise that the ECB needs to fight inflation if it is a real danger. But what we cannot accept is the objective of price stability being confused with a policy of keeping wages down at all times and at all costs.” The ECB is pointing to upward risks to price stability coming from governments hiking value added taxes in 2007 and from workers going for higher than expected wage increases. However, the ETUC survey comes to a totally different conclusion:

Brussels, 08/06/2006 We condemn this dangerous populism, which attempts to scapegoat minority communities. We reaffirm: - our opposition to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation; and - our support for the rights of all citizens, including Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) communities, to organise and to demonstrate publicly.

Brussels, 08/06/2006