The ITUC and the ETUC have welcomed the EU’s adoption of a new financial instrument for the block’s external action for the period 2021-27, the ‘Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - Global Europe’ (NDICI-Global Europe).

ETUC’s DECENT WORK & SUSTAINABLE GROWTH INDEX Decent work and sustainable growth are one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals which the EU signed-up to in 2015. The report prepared for the ETUC by a team of researchers of the highly respected Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development ASviS, led by Prof. Enrico Giovannini, measures progress towards the goal on three measures: economic wellbeing, employment quality and labour vulnerability (merged also into one overall index). 

Swiss union Travail Suisse is supporting a campaign that invites workers to give up an hour’s salary to help young people in Africa and Latin America to get access to education, work, and an income that allows them to live in dignity. What Swiss workers earn in an hour is equivalent to a week’s salary in many countries. “In Brazil, a mechanic earns about 25 francs (€23) a week,” say campaign organisers. A textile worker in El Salvador gets just nine francs (€8.2) for a 15-hour day.  

ETUC answer to the Reflection Paper Towards a Sustainable Europe 2030 Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 26-27 March 2019 Starting with Scenario 2, swiftly moving toward Scenario 1 On 30 January 2019, the European Commission issued a Reflection Paper Towards a Sustainable Europe 2030. It includes three scenarios which the Strategic Agenda 2019-2024 of the EU will be built upon[1].

Dear Colleagues, please find enclosed the ETUC Draft Position on the Reflection Paper of the European Commission: Toward a Sustainable Europe by 2030. This document will be submitted to the Executive Committee of the ETUC  at the end of March.  In June 2018, the ETUC adopted a Resolution : Trade Unions for A Sustainable Europe by 2030 . We consider that this document sets our priorities and views on the implementation of the UN2030 Agenda in Europe and should constitute an integral part of our answer to the Reflection Paper of the European Commission.

  Bonn COP 23 to Katowice COP 24: ETUC priorities for international climate negotiations in 2018 Adopted at the Executive Committee of 13 and 14 December 2017 Context