PPPs, Corporate Social Responsibility

EPSU joined a dedicated hearing with social partners on the “sustainable corporate governance initiative” organised by Commission’s DG Justice and Consumers.

Today, Eurodad and EPSU are launching a report about the broken promises of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Press Release - EPSU welcomes the vote on the Drinking Water Directive recast in the European Parliament today as small step forward to realise the Human Right to Water in the EU.

Close to 200 European trade union leaders joined in an online discussion and agreed several policies.

In an open letter, which has received the support of 600 organisations from more than 90 countries plus European and international organisations, EPSU calls on governments and the EU to take action to prevent the wave of ISDS cases that put at risk an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There’s no returning to old policies” was a central theme of the EPSU exchange on public procurement and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) held on 4 June.

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Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change.

In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic such measures are needed more than ever.

EPSU, Eurodad and more than 30 other civil society organisations have called on the World Bank (WB) European Executive Directors to stop promoting public-private partnerships (PPPs).

With hundreds examples of people taking control of local public services, bringing public services back in public ownership is gaining momentum across the world.

We should aim for “private sufficiency and public luxury”. These were opening remarks at the EPSU workshop on public services and trade, organised jointly with AK EUROPA, ÖGB Europabüro and ETUC on 19 November 2019 in Brussels.

EPSU has co-signed an appeal of 88 organisations which demands the European Commission introduce new corporate accountability legislation requiring companies to respect human rights and the environment in their global value chains and operations.

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector

Public debt crises happen more often than we think and including in developed countries. It means that a government can no longer service its debt payments.