Common purpose. The schedules of the ETUC and environmental
NGOs will be tightly linked for the next few months. The international
conference on climate change in December in Copenhagen, puts environmental
stakes at the hear of union concerns, both because of the major employment pool
this new sector represents and by the problems climate change causes for the
less advantaged populations. On the contrary, the economic crisis and the
renewed social agenda which will be approved by the Twenty-Seven in 2010 are
the occasion for NGOs working on sustainable development to impose the environmental
dimension as a an issue which won’t be avoidable in future EU social actions.
This common purpose led European trade unions and environmental NGOs to form an
alliance, “the Spring Alliance,” to better influence the European agenda.
able development to impose the environmental
dimension as a an issue which won’t be avoidable in future EU social actions.
This common purpose led European trade unions and environmental NGOs to form an
alliance, “the Spring Alliance,” to better influence the European agenda.
New paradigm. They also want a new paradigm: for
five years, the European Commission’s leitmotiv was “growth and employment.” Now,
they want the Commission’s agenda to focus on individuals and the planet. When
interviewed a
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