EU: the 2010 social agenda of the Commission

This year marks « the beginning of a new era » explains the Commission in the Work Programme presented on 31st March. Faced with the economic crisis, the Commission adds: “what is necessary now is the political will”: the European Commission is ready to accept the challenge”. A voluntarism translated in the social field by a series of initiatives guided in 2010 by the implementation of the economic and social strategy for the Union for 2020 whose priorities were adopted by the Member States last week (see our dispatch 100270)
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arch. Faced with the economic crisis, the Commission adds: “what is necessary now is the political will”: the European Commission is ready to accept the challenge”. A voluntarism translated in the social field by a series of initiatives guided in 2010 by the implementation of the economic and social strategy for the Union for 2020 whose priorities were adopted by the Member States last week (see our dispatch 100270)


The legislative initiatives in the field of labour law. The European Commission

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