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2016-05-21 12:00

Last Friday, the EU heads of state and government convened in Brussels for a summit with a delegation of the Turkish government to find a deal on an effective migration management at the Greek-Turkish border. The deal that was agreed on is a signal that the EU can act, but it is far from being positive throughout.

2016-05-20 12:00

Yesterday, the CESI Youth, CESI’s internal platform of young affiliates, convened for its annual meeting in Strasbourg, France. The focus of the meeting was a discussion on draft statutes for the CESI Youth, the nomination a new Vice Youth Representative and the adoption of a position paper on youth migration.

2016-05-19 12:00

Yesterday, CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger intervened at an expert hearing on the revision of the EU posting of workers directive in the Committee of the Regions.

2016-05-16 12:00

On Friday, May 12, CESI’s Trade Council ‘Post & Telecoms’ – the members’ sectoral forum to discuss European political subjects with implications for post and telecoms employees – convened for its annual meeting in Tirana, Albania. The meeting took place in the context of a conference with Albanian politicians and decision-makers on the functioning of social dialogue and trade unionism in Albania.

2016-05-14 12:00

Today CESI’s Trade council ‘Defence’ met for its annual meeting in Brussels. This time, CESI’s members’ forum for deliberation and internal positioning on EU defence policy saw lively discussions on several key political priorities of armed forces personnel.

2016-05-11 12:00

Earlier this week, the Commission published a proposal for a targeted revision of the EU posting of workers directive. According to CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger, the proposal contains useful suggestions but also stops short of the objective to ensure a completey equal treatment of mobile EU workers compared to ‘domestic’ ones.

2016-05-09 12:00

On the occasion of Europe Day, CESI recalls the multitude of achievements that Europe has made in order to reach peace and stability and warns that the EU needs to keep evolving and address its current challenges if it wants to remain successful.

2016-05-08 12:00

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Celebrated under the auspices of the UN every year since 1977, the day has become an instrumental tool for the UN to remind of persisting gender equalities across the globe. This year’s theme is ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for gender equality’ – an UN initiative which asks governments to make national commitments to close existing gender equality gaps in their countries. Kirsten Lühmann, President of CESI’s Commission on Women’s Rights and Equality, takes the occasion to recall that 2015 was, overall, a year of stagnation for better gender equality in Europe, and that the EU and its member states must resume their efforts to achieve real progress.

2016-05-04 12:00

CESI has been selected by the European Commission as one of 15 non-government members to become part of the EU’s Platform for Tax Good Governance for the time from April 2016 to June 2019. CESI has already been a member in the past and can now continue to work in the Platform in the future too.

2016-05-03 12:00

On Tuesday this week, the European Semester Alliance held a hearing in the European Parliament on the functioning of the European Semester, hosted by MEPs Marian Harkin and Sergio Gutiérrez-Prieto. As a member of the European Semester Alliance group, CESI presented the perspective of trade unions on how employment policies and measures are being handled under the European Semester.

2016-05-03 12:00

On Friday, April 29, CESI’s Trade council ‘Local and regional administrations’ – the members’ sectoral forum to discuss EU-political subjects with implications for employees in local and regional administrations – convened for its annual meeting in Brussels. Topics addressed ranged from the integration of refugees to privatisations in water supply services.

2016-05-01 12:00

On the occasion of this year’s International Workers’ Day, CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger recalls the long way that the EU still has to go to realise fair working conditions for all.

2016-04-28 12:00

Today, CESI’s Trade council ‘Health services’ – the members’ forum to discuss EU level health service policies – convened for its annual meeting in Brussels. Next to discussions on a variety of topics related to the needs of employees in the healthcare sector, two new transnational collaboration agreements on fair labour mobility were signed between three of CESI’s member organisations: The German dbb, the Dutch CNV-Connectief and the Spanish SAE trade union organisations.

2016-04-28 12:00

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Initiated by the ILO in 2003 as an annual day to commemorate victims of occupational diseases and accidents, it has remained – unfortunately – topical ever since. CESI takes the occasion of this year’s World Day to recall that occupational heath and safety for all remains a challenge to be met.

2016-04-13 12:00

Today, CESI’s Presdium met in Amsterdam. The overarching objective of the meeting, hosted by CESI’s Dutch member organisation CNV Connectief, was to make first preparations for the next Congress which will take place in December in Brussels.