Besides the new themes, such as sustainable development or the regulation of investment funds, on which it wants to take a stand for the next four years (see our story n°070451), the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), currently holding its 11th congress, is also getting ready to be "on the offensive" for the European meetings which will take place in the next few months : debate on flexicurity and modernization of labour law, as well as the revival of the constitutional treaty. (Ref. 070454)
Debate on flexicurity and modernization of labour law. The course of action which should be adopted at the end of the ETUC’s 11th congress includes a development on flexicurity, a concept which the European commission presented as the key to a balanced adjustment, between companies and workers’ rights, to changes and globalization. During his speech in this congress, the president of the employers’s organization BusinessEurope, Ernest-Antoine Seillière, insisted on the need for European social
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