Brussels, 15/01/2010 Declaration for download To download the ETUC note, please click on the respective link below.

Brussels, 01-02/12/2009 1. The Lisbon Strategy was supposed to enable poverty to be eradicated in Europe by 2010: what is the latest? One of the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy was the eradication of poverty in Europe by 2010. What is the situation now? 1.1 Poverty and social exclusion: an evil entrenched in European society

Brussels, 20-21/10/2009 Introduction Weeks before the negotiations in Copenhagen on an international framework on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, we find ourselves confronted by three mutually-impacting crises: the ecological crisis as a result of climate change and the loss of biodiversity, the global economic crisis and price instability in raw materials and food. From a trade union perspective, this situation presents itself as one of the largest and most difficult challenges of recent decades.

Brussels, 08/07/2009 The European trade Union confederation (ETUC) Executive Committee agrees that there should be a period of reflection before any future revision of the directive. However, concerning the current directive, the ETUC Executive Committee strongly calls for action to be taken to ensure that the Directive is being properly and fully implemented. Specifically, the ETUC calls on the European Commission to initiate infringement proceedings against Member States who are significantly failing to implement the working time directive.

Brussels, 04-05/03/2008

Brussels, 04/04/2008

Brussels, 14-15 March 2006 1.1 According to ETUC, bolstering social cohesion and devising 'content' for the European Social Model, which consists mainly of high-quality, high-level social protection systems and a resolute battle against social exclusion, are European ambitions that need to be implemented by the Member States in connection with the streamlined open method of coordination. These ambitions will be reaffirmed at the forthcoming Spring Summit.

Brussels, 17/03/2005 This ETUC note is to provide: •  correct information on what is really happening in some countries concerning longer working hours. The main conclusion to this is: ‘not much’. Aside from some isolated companies, there is no general tendency to switch to longer hours. And in those companies where longer working hours do get introduced, employers have to grant important tough concessions (for example: job guarantees);

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Adopted at the ETUC 10th Statutory Congress, 26-29/05/2003 Delegates at the 10th ETUC Congress, meeting in Prague from May 26-29, expresses their strong discontentment and incomprehension at the risk of a stalemate in the adoption of the proposed directive on temporary agency work, and at the risk of its major distortion by a certain number of Member States : The United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Germany.