The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) wants to take full advantage of the political window offered by the renewal of the Community institutions to get its message through. With its manifesto for the European election, it wants to call out to the candidates and citizens about the need for the EU to take a new path towards more social Europe.
New people, the opportunity to take a new course. The European Union is changing. After the election in May, the European Commission will be renewed, starting with its chairman. And the ETUC has every intention to be active during this transition, which will lay down the foundation of the future Europe. The union summit organized yesterday, March 19, in Brussels – the day before the Council of the heads of State and government –, which gathered a lot of national union leaders, should that ETUC members, whether they come from peripheral or virtuous countries, are on the same page: they want the end of the austerity policy and more social justice.
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