Public Services (Services of General Interest)

The aim of the workshop was to help prepare the first draft of the public services resolution for the EPSU 2009 Congress. Each constituency was invited to nominate two representatives to the meeting.
The attached PowerPoint presentation gives an overview of the day’s discussion. The last slides reflect the points made in the meeting concerning the content of the public services resolution. These are based also on a “tour de table” on challenges and trade union demands at the (...)

Information note on EU developments relating to public services
November 2007

(Brussels, 31 May) The campaign for public services saw growing momentum build in the European Parliament (EP). On 30 May, both the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the Green Party/EFA launched initiatives calling for a framework directive on Services of General Interest. In addition the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament debated the draft EP response to the Commission White Paper on Services of General Interest.

From Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary
To the members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee I would like to make some preliminary remarks about the Working Document on Services of General Interest (11.04.06), which is due to be tabled at your next meeting on 3 May. Also I would like to draw your attention to the fact that EPSU will submit a detailed response to the Working Document on 22 May, which we hope can be integrated into the formal ECON discussions on the (...)

EPSU response to Communication on social services of general interest
Press communication: 27 April 2006
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Attention: News Editors
(27 April, Brussels) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) expresses its disappointment with the Communication on Social Services of General Interest. This is based on the substance and the process of the Communication on Social Services of General Interest (26 April). In substance the Communication falls short of EPSU’s (...)

It is time for a different macro-economic approach argued several speakers at this Alternative EcoFin held in Vienna, 5-6 April. Organised as an alternative to the European Council of Ministers for Economy and Finance (EcoFin), participants sought to develop different approaches from the neo-liberal orthodoxy which is currently dominant in Europe. Several workshops were organised on macro-economic policy and finance, on European wage coordination and globalisation. EPSU Deputy General (...)

Europäische Gewerkschaftsverband für den öffentlichen Dienst (EPSU)
Pressemitteilung: 21 April 2006
European wide campaign launch for EU public service directive
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(21 April, Vienna) Organisiert wurde die Konferenz vom österreichischen Mitglied des EGÖD, der Gewerkschaft der Gemeindebediensteten (GdG). Unter den Anwesenden befanden sich Anne-Sophie Parent, die Präsidentin der Europäischen Sozialplattform, Caspar Einem, der Präsident des Europäischen Zentralverbandes der Öffentlichen (...)

Tisková zpráva EPSU z 21. dubna 2006
Akce: Zahájení evropské kampaně za směrnici EU o veřejných službách
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Vídeň, 21. dubna 2006) Evropská federace odborových svazů veřejných služeb (EPSU) dnes zahájila svou kampaň za přijetí evropské směrnice o veřejných službách. Zahájení kampaně, které proběhlo ve Vídni, zorganizovala rakouská afilace EPSU - GdG. Přítomni byli presidentka Evropské sociální platformy - Anne-Sophie Parent, president Evropských (...)

(23 February, 2006) As part of the follow up and assessment of the European Parliament Services Directive vote, the focus continues to fall on Public Services. The acknowledgement that the next six month period will be essential for public services was underlined by recent press coverage. Agence Europe, the daily EU news bulletin, gave prominence to the calls for a legal framework on services of general interest. In their story (attached) they highlight the fact that both public services (...)

The European Socialist Party (PES) is organising a Group Seminar ’Services of General Interest: Who’s leading? The European Internal Market or Public Authorities?’ on 7th February, 2006 from 9:30 to 12:45 hrs in room P1A002 in the European Parliament. A PES working group has been drawing up a legal framework provision and this will be presnted at the seminar. The seminar willalso debate other initiatives/solutions regarding the future of SGI/SGEI, as well as holding a dialogue on (...)

Quality public services in Europe - quality of life
EPSU campaign for an EU legal framework on public services
1. Introduction
It is worth recalling why EPSU needs this campaign: “Without specific EU laws protecting public services, the EU will continue to “open-up” public services to competition and, when this is done, to strictly limit the public service obligations of the private operators. A proactive strategy that leads to EU action to support solidarity-based (...)

Europe must mean more to citizens than the free movement of goods, capital, services and people - Europe is about having a shared vision for common prosperity and well-being;
Quality public services are key to meeting citizen’s fundamental rights as well as the EU’s objectives of cohesion, sustainable development, gender equality, equal treatment between workers, full employment and competitiveness;
The principles that underpin public services - such as universality, continuity, (...)

EPSU, together with ETUCE, ETF, Celsig, CEEP, Confrontations Europe, and Eurocities have called in a joint letter on the European Parliament to resolve an ongoing dispute over which EP Committee should take the lead in following up the White Paper on SGI. The signatories to the letter point out that such follow-up is urgently needed if the discussion on a future legal framework for SGI is not to be superseded by the debate on the draft services (...)

POSITION PAPER BY THE PES GROUP, adopted on April 13, 2005
A RESPONSE TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S WHITE PAPER ON SERVICES OF GENERAL INTEREST AS WELL AS TO CURRENT EUROPEAN INITIATIVES TO THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERVICES

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