EU: Europe’s trade unions hold their 13th Congress in Paris

Europe’s unions can breath a sigh of relief if we stick to the speeches. During the Congress’s opening addresses, politicians successively commended unionism, labor rights, and a Social Europe. In the text, “for me, a normal employment contract is a open ended contract (…). Precarity is not the European model.” declared Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission to a wave of applause. He went on to castigate “this fierce desire to make everything more flexible, it has to stop sin