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The Commission aims to make public procurement a tool for promoting the EU’s strategic interests. Trade union organisations in Brussels are, quite rightly, monitoring this issue very closely.

Strategic autonomy takes centre stage in Europe's response to an increasingly hostile world

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

It is with great sadness that we have learnt that Maria Reina Martín Ferreira Pimpão has gone home to the Lord.

For so many years, she was a pillar of the EZA network. Through EZA, together with the entire team of Fidestra, she organised so many seminars on such a wide variety of topics for her colleagues from workers’ organisations across Europe. She enriched so many seminars with her contributions. She was a…

Europe's social agenda faces three priority challenges, but will it equip itself to address them?

New EU rules on coordination of social security systems soon to be adopted

Europe’s agenda under Irish leadership

Every year, around 120,000 workers in the European Union develop cancer due to exposure to hazardous substances at work. Recently, the European Parliament and the Member States reached an agreement that aims to gradually reduce that number. Liesbet Sommen (cd&v/EPP) negotiated the dossier on behalf of Parliament and brought it to a successful conclusion.

The International Labour Conference adopted the first global labour standard dedicated to the platform economy.