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Dec. 12, 2021

Judgment by the European Court of Justice delivers significant blow to Energy Charter Treaty

(Update) The negotiations to reform the Energy Charter Treaty are failing as a recent analysis of Investigate Europe shows.

Apr. 06, 2021

12 March 2021 EPSU Constituency meeting Central Europe

EPSUs’ Central European and Western Balkan Constituency of unions: vaccinations, vaccinations...

The pandemic is causing high numbers of infections, hospitalisations and death in the countries of the constituency.

Dec. 12, 2019

Will Croatian EU Presidency boost transparency in the Council of the EU?

EPSU and several other trade unions and organisations have sent an open letter to the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Croatian MEPs and the Croatian Permanent Representation to the EU

Apr. 12, 2019

Presidium of the 4. Congress RETUN-SEE in Belgrade, 11 April 2019 - EPSU GS joins energy unions South East Europe

Energy unions South East Europe consider climate change, restructuring and bargaining

With all the countries of South East Europe being members of the Energy Community, the impact of European Union energy policies is felt beyond the borders of the EU.

May. 16, 2018

2018 May epsucob@NEWS 10

Health workers call for higher pay to stop emigration

Bulgaria Croatia

On 12 May healthworkers in Sofia and Zagreb demonstrated over poor pay and working conditions and the crisis of understaffing. 5000 nurses, medical professionals, midwives and lab technicians joined a demonstration outside the Council of Ministers in Sofia demanding a 1500 Lev (EUR 765) minimum wage for health workers as a step towards stemming the flow of health workers out of the country. In Zagreb the call was also for improved pay and working conditions and in particular the respect for collective agreements in relation to overtime pay.

Nov. 23, 2017

Unions demand respect for workers’ rights, high quality public services, functioning social dialogue from Eastern Partnership

The European Union is meeting with leaders of the Eastern Partnership countries, 24 November.

Aug. 31, 2017

2017 September epsucob@NEWS 15

East-West pay convergence stalls

Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Slovak Republic Slovenia

An analysis by the European Trade Union Institute shows that wage convergence between East and West in Europe was steady up until 2008. However, since then the trend has either stalled or gone into reverse. Taking national average pay as a percentage of the average across the pre-2004 EU15, Croatia and Hungary show the largest increase in the pay gap since 2008. There were also increases in Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.Most progress was made in Bulgaria but from a very low level (11.8%) to 17.7%, still less than a fifth of average pay in the West.