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• What quality of life do we want for Europeans today?

  27 Sep 2011

  By: Staffan Nilsson

  All around me I read about, see and feel that Europeans are increasingly living in fear, humiliation and hopelessness. Humiliation and fear are feelings that people have always lived with, but rarely have they given up hope, which has now vanished from our mythical Pandora's box. Last Friday in Paris, we celebrated 50 years of the Council of Europe's Social Charter and, while acknowledging the achievements of the EU's Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, we wondered what the next step might be. The seminar discussions left me with the impression that when everything appears lost amid the financial turmoil, people's social rights are all they have left. These rights serve to stabilise society in the same way that the motion of Earth's tectonic plates prevents the planet from imploding.

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Documents

• 27 Nov 2012 Economic and social development in the Baltic States: Lithuania This study was carried out by Prof. Dr Boguslavas Gruževskis and Dr habil. Inga Blažienė
  (Institute of Labour and Social Research, Vilnius)
• 27 Nov 2012 Economic and social development in the Baltic States: Latvia This study was carried out by Jānis Kajaks, Economics expert with the Latvian Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
• 27 Nov 2012 Economic and social development in the Baltic states: Estonia This study was carried out by Prof. Dr. Alari Purju (Tallinn Technical University).
• 7 Dec 2011 Group II Resolution: No minor procedure for major Treaty changes The Workers' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee believes this is an urgent need to deliver a clear message to EU institutions and Member States' leaders: the Group is firmly against Merkel-Sarkozy's proposals related only to a strengthening of the Stability and Growth Pact in the Lisbon Treaty. The resolution mentions the orientations that should be adopted and the measures that should be taken.

Events

• 27 Nov 2012 - 28 Nov 2012
  

  

  The social situation in the Baltic States // Economic governance: wages and collective agreements Meeting - Brussels and Houffalize, Belgium
  Extraordinary Meeting of the Workers' Group

News

• 16 Apr 2013 Declaration of the Workers' Group: Hungary and equal treatment Declaration of the Workers' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee on equal treatment for workers of the public and private sectors in Hungary
• 4 Feb 2013
  
  A delegation of Egyptian trade unionists visits the EESC On 4 and 5 February 2013, a delegation of Egyptian independent trade unionists visited the European institutions as part of a solidarity campaign organised by the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
• 14 Nov 2012
  
  European Day of Action and Solidarity Members of the Workers' Group participate in the European day of action and solidarity against austerity organised on the initiative of the European Trade Union Confederation.
• 9 Oct 2012
  
  A delegation of trade unionists from Colombia and Peru talks to the President of the Workers' Group of the EESC Six trade union delegates from Colombia and Peru participated in a meeting with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to reassert their opposition to the EU-Colombia-Peru Free Trade Agreement.