EU: European Trade Union Confederation starts campaign against severity measures adopted by several Member States

Euro-demonstration. During the meeting organized earlier this week in Brussels, the members of the executive committee of the ETUC expressed concern about the severity measures European countries adopted to fight their public debts. The European trade union thinks that these measures are a threat to growth and consumption and increase risks of unemployment and reduce the European production capacity. The ETUC’s executive committee is also worried about cuts into service provision which have started in some Member States, which it says is a prelude to increased precariousness in Europe. It is precisely to denounce “dark cuts” into national budgets that the European trade unions called for a euro-demonstration on September 29th in the European capital city.
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h it says is a prelude to increased precariousness in Europe. It is precisely to denounce “dark cuts” into national budgets that the European trade unions called for a euro-demonstration on September 29th in the European capital city.

Tripartite meeting. This meeting was organized the day before a meeting, today June 4th, between the European social partners and Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission. During this meeting, ETUC general secretary John Monks should point to the risks

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