The next European elections will be held in May 2019. We believe that the time between now and this deadline should be used to bring social issues into the public debate and to question the direction taken by this European Union. Far from electoralism, we want to work together with other social forces to send a strong unified message to the people of Europe.
Analysing Europe
Latest update : 21 November.
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June 2018
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Migration policies: between hypocrisy, confusion and instrumentalization
16 May 2018On 29 and 30 November 2017, African and European heads of state met in Abidjan for an Africa-European Union Summit aimed at "defining future directions for cooperation between the two continents"[1]. Migration issues were high on the agenda, as the summit was an opportunity to follow up on the orientations taken at another summit on migration in Valletta, Malta, in 2015.
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Commodification of health: the challenge facing health systems
15 May 2018Despite variations - mainly due to differences in how they have evolved - health systems in most countries are today confronted with similar problems closely linked with the increasing commodification of health.
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Danish unions stand up to threat to bargaining system
14 March 2018(14 March 2018) Last week public sector employers in Denmark stunned trade unions with the threat of a massive lockout of public sector workers.
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The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
28 February 2018The crisis of social democracy is being debated throughout Europe. Several of the historically strong labour parties have almost been wiped out in elections while others seem unable to recover from defeat. In the last few years, a number of social democratic parties have ended up with only one-digit election results (Greece, Ireland, Iceland, The Netherlands, France), while others have experienced major setbacks.
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EU: EPSU VS European Commission
26 February 2018The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) is to take the European Commission to the European Union General Court on 15 May 2018 for failing to implement a Social Partners’ agreement by legislation.
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50 years of struggles: 1968-2018
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Belgium/France: 10 October 2017 – Strike in Public Services
14 February 2018Like their French comrades, the Belgian civil service employees were on strike on Tuesday 10th of October to fight against the destruction of our collective heritage: public services.
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France: Notre-Dame-des-Landes - Declaration of European ATTAC Network
14 February 2018For a number of years, the European Attac network have been supporting carefully, and with all the means available, the struggle of small farmers, opponents, and occupying activists of the region against the project of a pseudo-transfer of the current Nantes Atlantique airport.
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Spain: Struggle against pirate companies
14 February 2018Everything started in Spain with the 2012 labour market reform, when the PP (People’s Party) and their absolute majority changed the collective bargaining rules to make company agreements prevail over sector agreements.
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Galicia: Mobilisation for workers’ rights
14 February 2018There is no doubt that collective bargaining is the main tool available to the working class to combat the neoliberal policies imposed over the last eight years under the pretext of the crisis.
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Austria: Heading towards ‘Illiberal Democracy’
14 February 2018Six months after a coalition of voters, which ranged from the conservative centre to the Communist Party, voted for the (formally Green) candidate Alexander Van der Bellen to be their Federal President with 54%, Sebastian Kurz – dubbed the “acceptable face of right-wing populism”– managed to gain a majority of ÖVP and FPÖ in parliament.
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Belgium: Struggle for a collective reduction in working time
14 February 2018Faced with an increasing workload and the immobility of employers, workers of Oleon chemical plant in East Flanders decided to go on strike in mid-September 2017. After 3 days of production stoppage, the management accepted the workers’ requests.
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France: Strike in Holiday Inn subcontractor
14 February 2018On January 10, strikers from the Holiday Inn of Clichy – employed by the subcontractor Héméra - and their supporters came to Brussels to demonstrate in front of the hotels of the Intercontinental Hotels Group, one of the world’s largest hotel group. This action is part of a European tour that will take the strikers from Paris to London via Barcelona and Geneva. Interview with Eric, one of the 12 striking employees.
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Europe: Thousands of voices for the right to abortion
14 February 2018Facing a reactionary shift and the prevailing austerity, the right to abortion and its effective exercise are put under pressure throughout Europe. On 28 September, International Day of the Right to Abortion was an opportunity for thousands of women and men to demand that abortion should become a right for all women in Europe.
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The European Commission stalls European Social Dialogue!
14 February 2018About two years ago trade unions including the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and the European employers of the central government administrations (EUPAE) signed an Agreement on Information and consultation rights for workers, following a Commission’s consultation.
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Editorial: Build an effective network
14 February 2018On the 10th of October, two public service strikes took place simultaneously in France and in Belgium. Several member organizations of the Alter Summit supported this movement.
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French spring against Loi Travail
3 July 2016When it launched its umpteenth reform, the French government was counting on a trade union movement weakened by in-fighting and defeats, on pensions in particular.
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Our health isn’t up for sale!
3 July 2016Commercialisation is having an impact on health care systems everywhere in Europe. Numerous reforms carried out from the end of the 1970s have allowed access by commercial operators aiming to make a profit and thus progressively changing the complex dynamics of health care systems.
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Speech of Sophie Binet (CGT), 1st May in Hambourg
4 June 2015Speech of Sophie Binet, member of the confederal direction of CGT, on May 1 in Hambourg.
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