EU: European Commission plans legislative procedure to regulate the right to strike in case of conflicts with the freedom to provide services

The communication the European Commission adopted on April 13th defines 12 levers including funding for SMEs, intellectual property, the digital single market, public procurement, taxation on energy and three levers on the labor world.
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ers to boost growth and strengthen confidence.” One year before the 20th anniversary of the launch of this market which founded the EU, the Commission wants to revive its construction and improve its functioning. Regarding social aspects, the European Commission thinks that reviving the single requires improving the recognition of degrees and, notably, introducing a professional card, the portability of supplementary pension rights, encouraging social entrepreneurship, better applying the posting of workers directive and, and this is new, a cross cutting legislation “which will clarify the exercise of freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services alongside fundamental social rights, including the right to take collective action.”

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