Campaign aims and materials

Users and Providers - a natural alliance ?

EPSU Final report:
Users and Providers - a natural alliance?
by Jane Lethbridge, 15 March 2006

Background paper on a legal framework for services of general (economic) interest

by Markus Krajewski

This background paper discusses a number of legal questions which present itself in the context of calls for a legal framework (framework directive) on services of general (economic) interest.

Introduction - political context

The political context:
On 28 November, the ETUC launched its petition calling for One Million signatures in support of a framework directive for public services. The deadline set was the ETUC Congress on 21-24 May, in Seville, Spain.
Quite simply, the ETUC petition on public services must be a success and must be seen to be a success. In recent years EPSU has made two major advances in relation to public services;
1. We have succeeded in formulating a coherent EPSU policy on how the EU (...)

EPSU campaign brochure for ’Quality Public Services - Quality of Life’

Please find the EPSU campaign brochure for ’Quality Public Services - Quality of Life’.
This campaign brochure is available electronically in English here.
For versions in other EPSU languages PLEASE CONTACT the EPSU secretariat at epsu@epsu.org

Major trade union campaign to put respect for public services at top of EU agenda

’EU law to protect public services is the goal’

’Quality public services - quality of life’ - this is the slogan of the first EU-wide campaign to promote public services. This autumn will see a series of co-ordinated events in each of the 25 EU member states to promote the need for quality public services as an integral part of the EU. The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) is coordinating the campaign.