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28/04/2023
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22/2023

On the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2023, the European Economic and Social Committee is calling upon the European Commission to adopt binding legislation to prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace. There is mounting evidence pointing to the fact that precarious work is taking a significant toll on workers' mental health. The call was made during yesterday’s EESC’s plenary session, chaired for the first time by the newly elected president, Oliver Röpke.

22/09/2022
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47/2022

At the EESC plenary debate with Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas, the EESC reiterated its unwavering support for a European Health Union. It urged the Commission to be ambitious in the implementation of the new European care strategy, which aims to ensure that each and every European has access to affordable and high-quality healthcare

15/06/2018
Hearing live-in care Poland
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Reference number: 32/2018

The EESC held the fourth of its Going Local meetings on the live-in care sector in the EU, this time in Poland. The country provides much of the sector's workforce in western EU Member States, but has itself started to face a serious shortage of qualified carers in recent years

21/09/2017
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45/2017

Wenige Wochen vor der Abstimmung der Europäischen Kommission über eine Verlängerung der Glyphosat-Zulassung um zehn Jahre bot der Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) auf seiner Plenartagung am Mittwoch eine Gelegenheit, über dieses Thema zu diskutieren. David Schwartz von WeMove.org und Herman van Bekkem von Greenpeace waren eingeladen, um die Ziele der von ihnen angeregten Europäischen Bürgerinitiative (EBI) zu erläutern.

16/06/2017
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31/2017

The successful experience of Estonia with E-government as well as questions concerning cybersecurity were discussed during the EESC conference on the “Future development of E-government in the EU” held in Tallinn. The EESC hosted a debate on the priorities of the incoming Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU which have as an overarching goal to improve the ...

21/09/2016
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55/2016

The EESC has adopted an opinion on the rights of live-in care workers. It urges policy-makers to fully recognise their contribution to long-term care, to treat them in a similar way to other care providers and to regularise the status of undocumented workers. An ageing population and cuts in public-sector spending have created a shortfall in the ...