Position adopted by the EPSU Standing Committee on Public Utilities, 7 April 2005

The European trade union demonstration illustrated the resolve of Europe’s workers to oppose the ultra-liberal project to dismantle workers’ protection and public services. More then 3000 workers marched through Brussels and offered petitions to the Belgian employment Minister and the President of the Council of Ministers. Delegates came from many countries and many sectors, principally building and woodworkers and public services. The picture shows EPSU General Secretary with Josef Niemiec (...)

A public hearing of the European Parliament (EP) committee on the internal market and consumer protection took place on 11 November 2004, at which a debate on the draft Directive was held. Over 700 European organisation representatives participated illustrating the extremely high level of interest, and controversy, regarding this directive.
For EPSU, the encouraging element was the overwhelming number of interventions which were critical of the services directive. The summary of the (...)

Adopted by the EPSU Executive Committee, 14/06/2004
The EPSU Executive Committee, meeting on 14 June 2004, took note of the White Paper of the European Commission on Services of General Interest. EPSU acknowledges a number of positive elements contained in the White Paper. On the whole though the White Paper offers little more than was already known before its actual publication and is therefore overall disappointing as the outcome of a long discussion process. Indeed, a number of the (...)