Sep. 18, 2006 EPSU meets Finnish Energy Presidency The European Commission needs to develop a plan B that ensures that citizens and business are protected from the consequences of the internal market for electricity and gas which clearly
Sep. 17, 2006 Heating or Eating? Public Hearing on the Commission's Green Paper on Energy Policy (12 September 2006) Consumers and Environment pressure groups took the chance to point to the blind spots of the Commission's conception of competition in electricity and gas. Skyrocketing energy prices
Sep. 16, 2006 Update on failing internal market electricity and gas (September 2006) EPSU has requested Professor Steve Thomas to continue to monitor the working of the internal market for electricity and gas. This new paper contains analysis of recent papers
Aug. 26, 2006 Energy liberalisation does not contribute to Lisbon Agenda EPSU commissioned another research report to consider the benefits of the internal market for electricity and gas. The paper argues that the association between structural reforms in the network industries
Jun. 26, 2006 Internal Market for Electricity and Gas - Evaluation - 300.000 jobs lost The Directives on the internal market for electricity and gas call on the Commission to evaluate the experience of the opening of the electricity and gas markets, and to present
May. 19, 2006 EPSU welcomes EP call for social dimension to South-East European Energy Treaty Press Communication (19 May, Brussels) The demands of trade unions from South East Europe, supported by EPSU, for a social dimension in the South East European Energy Community received full
May. 15, 2006 Energy issues high on ETUC Working Group on Sustainable Development Issues considered included: - A study on climate change policy, climate change and employment. The study is carried out by Syndex, Wuppertal Institute and others. It considers a number of
May. 12, 2006 EN RU Unions criticise European Commission Green Paper on Energy While the analysis of the challenges facing Europe as pointed out in the Green Paper is largely supported, EPSU rejects the priority of creating the internal market in electricity and
Apr. 26, 2006 No evidence of direct link between liberalisation and lower prices for domestic users - Recent evidence on the impact of electricity liberalisation on consumer prices - by Steve Thomas, PSIRU April 2006 New study of PSIRU which looks at a number
Apr. 20, 2006 European Parliament Committee adopts South East European Energy Treaty The European Parliament Committee dealing with Energy gave its assent to the South East European Energy Treaty yesterday. This vote was unanimous. It also adopted a resolution and amendments, which
Mar. 29, 2006 European and US unions join forces and confront EON's hiring pratices (Brussels 29 March, 2006) Energy Trade Unions from European and the USA today announced joint action to confront German energy giant EON. The Energy company has reneged on its pledge
Mar. 28, 2006 US union stages protests against Eon (7 April 2006) US workers have started their protests against the nonunion policies of German energy giant Eon. The first action was in front of the German embassy in Washington
Mar. 27, 2006 High level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment (31 May 2006) ETUC statement to High Level Group stresses employment and energy democracy HLG Statement ETUC (5 April 2006) The European Commission established the high level group to address
Mar. 10, 2006 Gas workers strike against merger Suez and Gas de France A strike of workers in Gas de France has affected gas distribution, several companies and public organisations are affected. The strike is widely supported. - To read more (in French)
Mar. 09, 2006 Profile of Russian Gas Giant Gazprom (17/03/2006) One of Europe's biggest companies is Gazprom, the Russian gas giant. It is also one of Europe's largest employers. As not much information appears available EPSU has commissioned a