Declaration of the Workers' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee on the proposal to amend directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding

Organised civil society - a key component of development policy

Hear Commissioner Neven Mimica at EESC conference on "Promoting the involvement of economic and social actors in development cooperation"

20 March 2015, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. – EESC-Meeting room JDE62- 99 Rue Belliard, Brussels

In the light of the EU's new development cooperation programmes and financial instruments, and given the emergence of interesting new initiatives by actors from outside this framework, the EU faces the challenging question of whether its policies need to be updated and what adjustments this might entail.