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2016-02-18 12:00

On March 1, the European Semester Alliance will hold a hearing in the European Parliament on ‘The Annual Growth Survey (AGS) behind, the Semester ahead: What proposals to make Europe 2020 more social, democratic and sustainable?’. As a member of the Semester Alliance, CESI will also speak at the hearing. Registration is still possible until February 23.

2016-02-17 12:00

The synthesis report of the 2015 project of CESI’s Europe Academy on ‘Better anticipate change and restructuring in public administrations in Europe: The role of information and consultation of workers’ is now available on CESI’s website.

2016-02-12 12:00

On 29 January, 2016, CESI’s Italian member organisation CONFSAL held a high level conference in Rome on the importance of a quality education for the cultural, personal and professional development of young people. CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger spoke for CESI at the conference.

2016-02-10 12:00

Today, CESI’s Commissions on Employment and Social Affairs Commission (SOC) and Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) convened for their first meeting of the year in Brussels. As CESI’s most important members’ committees for deliberation and positioning on horizontal aspects of EU employment, gender equality and social policy, the meetings saw orientation debates on the major topics that will be worked on during 2016.

2016-02-05 12:00

On March 3-4, CESI will host a seminar on ‘Youth and the unions: An example of participation in democratic life’.

2016-02-04 12:00

Yesterday, the European Parliament’s plenary adopted its own-initiative report on recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). The report calls to exclude public services from the agreement. CESI welcomes the report and hopes that the Commission will follow the recommendations of the European Parliament.

2016-01-28 12:00

Today, the European Commission released its Anti-Tax Avoidance Package. It is part of the Commission’s ambitious agenda for fairer, simpler and more effective corporate taxation in the EU and follows the final OECD’s 2015 Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) package for a reform of the international tax system to tackle tax avoidance. According to CESI, the package is a step ion right direction but can also only be a start for more action to come.

2016-01-27 12:00

On February 18, CESI in cooperation with Eurodiaconia will hold a breakfast meeting on fair labour mobility in the European Parliament. Registration for the event, which will be hosted by MEP Jean Lambert (Greens/EFA, UK), is open until February 10.

2016-01-06 12:00

The European Social Dialogue Committee in Central Government Administrations (SDC CGA), comprising CESI and the Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) for the employees and the European Public Administration Employers (EUPAE) for the employers, has opened a tender procedure for a guide and study on psychosocial risks in central government administrations. The deadline for participation in the procedure is February 4.

2016-01-04 12:00

The topic of the project of the CESI Europe Academy (CESI’s internal training and capacity building center) for 2016 has been formally set to “Health and Safety at Work in the Public Sector in Europe: New Challenges”. To inform the project, CESI has opened a call to tender for the production of an accompanying research and study paper. The deadline for participation in the tender procedure is February 5 2016.

2016-01-04 12:00

2015-09-25 12:00

October 19 will see the next edition of CESI’s event series ‘CESI@noon’ with a lunchtime panel debate on a highly topical subject: Public sector workers in Europe facing the challenges of migration. Registration is now possible via the CESI webpage.

2015-09-22 12:00

After having concluded its file on recommendations for the European Commission on the negotiations for TTIP, the European Parliament has today started working on an analogue file on recommendations on the negotiations for TiSA. As a European trade union confederation representing several million public sector workers, CESI welcomes that a first working document calls to exclude public services from the trade agreement and hence rule out TiSA-induced destructive liberalisation forces for the sector.

2015-09-18 12:00

Yesterday, the European Youth Forum announced the selection of CESI’s youth organisation, the CESI Youth, as one of its YO!Fest partners at the next European Youth Event (EYE), which will take place on May 20-21 2016. It is the second time that the CESI Youth has been selected.

2015-09-17 12:00

Yesterday, the European Semester Alliance, a stakeholder group where CESI is a member, addressed a letter to European Commission President Juncker to express its concerns about the direction his Commission has taken when it adopted the Country-specific recommendations for 2015. In this context, the letter urges him “to address this and turn the 2016 AGS into a first step towards a European Semester that is democratic, social, sustainable and inclusive“. “Using the European Semester purely as an instrument to ensure macro-economic and monetary stability will not help you bring the EU closer to its citizens”, the letter adds.