PPPs, Demographic change

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.

“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.

Meeting documents - Presentations - other useful information

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.

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.

At the end of this year’s conference on 21 June the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted its Centenary Declaration on the Future of Work.

EPSU has sent the Members of Parliament seeking re-election, as well as a large number of candidates our proposals for what we expect from the Commission and the European Parliament in the next mandate.

On the eve of the elections the European federation of Public service workers has sent out letters to all spitzenkandidaten.