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The three union confederations, Akava, SAK and STTK, have criticised the European Union for repeatedly breaching the freedom of collective bargaining. They refer to recent cases where the European Commission has intervened in the bargaining procedures in Romania, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Italy and weakened the position of unions. This criticism appears in a discussion paper published on 26 April (due to be published in English at a later date) that is intended to influence the Finnish government over the debate on European Monetary Union.
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