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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

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Oct. 04, 2022

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Outsourcing is ‘hollowing out’ public administrations: new EPSU report

Press release (embargoed until 5pm) Accenture, McKinsey, PwC, EY... we're becoming increasingly reliant on consultancies.

Nov. 09, 2020

Call for tender

Tender for research on privatisation

Tender Specifications for Research on scale of and responses to privatisation in central government and the European Commission

Sep. 03, 2019

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Public and Private Sector efficiency

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

Aug. 06, 2019

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Analysis finds Commission study hinting at further push on privatisation

Research on public assets published by the European Commission fails to capture realistically their role in society and the economy according to a briefing produced for EPSU.

Jun. 19, 2019

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EPSU sends solidarity to striking outsourced workers in UK

Yesterday (18 June) EPSU sent its support to outsourced workers on the second day of their five-day strike over pay.

Oct. 22, 2018

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Report exposes further problems with public-private partnerships

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can end up leaving citizens and the public sector facing higher costs, greater risk, less transparency and more complexity than the public sector alternative.

Sep. 18, 2018

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Report on the Privatisation and Private Sector Involvement and other Forms of State Disengagement in Migration and Refugee Services

(18 September 2018) The European Public Service Union (EPSU) and Public Services International (PSI) commissioned a research to inform both our work in influencing policy on global governance of migration