EU: social partners embattle to support the new European Social Deal

An expanded European recovery plan financed by the EU. The ETUC demands a European investment plan totaling an annual 1% of GDP in the areas of areas of renewable energies, social infrastructure and clean transportation systems. This plan would be financed by the EU with the support of the European Investment Bank and European Central Bank.
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action tracks of the mini European employment summit (see our dispatch No. 090496). Judging that action proposed by the Member States and the Commission against the crisis is not ambitious enough, the European organization wants to push its claims through during Euro-demonstrations in Madrid, Brussels, Prague, Berlin, Luxembourg, Bucharest and Birmingham. Precisely, the ETUC demands a New Social Deal for Europe, divided up into six points.


An expanded European recovery plan financed by the EU.

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