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European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions

CESI

CESI is a European trade union confederation representing over 6 million workers across 40+ organisations, advocating for improved working and living conditions primarily in the public sector.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Nicolás González Casares (Member of the European Parliament) and SINDICATO DE ENFERMERIA SATSE

27 Jan 2026 · Health Workforce - Nursing

Meeting with Marta Temido (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2026 · INI 2025/2026

Meeting with Grégory Allione (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Dec 2025 · Réunion avec European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Dec 2025 · Support of firefighters in the European Union

Meeting with Jana Toom (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Dec 2025 · Employment and Social Policies of the Union

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

16 Dec 2025 · State of Play of the Traineeships Directive

Meeting with Maria Teresa Fabregas Fernandez (Director Structural Reform Support)

5 Dec 2025 · The involvement of CESI in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the European Semester at national and European level

Trade Unions Demand Fair Working Conditions in EU Delivery Act

14 Nov 2025
Topic — Reform of EU postal and parcel delivery services regulatory framework.
Message — CESI calls for the EU Delivery Act to safeguard universal service obligations, ensure sustainable financing, guarantee decent work conditions, embed green transitions, and give strong roles to regulators and social partners. They emphasize the Act must not foster competition based on poor labor conditions but instead strengthen essential networks and protect workers from liberalisation's negative effects.12
Why — This would prevent erosion of employment quality and ensure secure contracts for postal workers.3
Impact — New market entrants lose if required to fully comply with labor standards and collective agreements.4
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Meeting with Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

23 Sept 2025 · workforce shortages across the EU

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Sept 2025 · Public Event on the Health and Safety of Firefighters

European trade union confederation urges stronger social rights implementation

29 Aug 2025
Topic — Updated EU Action Plan on implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Message — The organization requests that trade unions be structurally involved in design, implementation and monitoring of all measures. They want the Action Plan to combine hard law, soft policy instruments and funding, with legislative initiatives where Member States fail to uphold social rights. They emphasize seven priorities including strengthening social dialogue, ensuring fair wages, tackling precarious employment, managing digital and green transitions, promoting public services, fostering lifelong learning, and combating workplace violence and discrimination.123
Why — This would increase their influence over EU social policy and strengthen collective bargaining power.45
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European trade unions urge binding measures to close gender gaps

11 Aug 2025
Topic — EU strategy on achieving gender equality across Europe from 2026-2030.
Message — CESI calls for binding measures, stronger enforcement and trade union involvement across seven priority areas including closing pay and pension gaps, combating workplace violence, expanding leadership quotas, and ensuring equal access to quality employment.12
Why — This would strengthen their role in pay audits, collective bargaining and workplace equality strategies.34
Impact — Employers face binding quotas, mandatory pay audits and increased compliance costs.56
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Meeting with Mark Nicklas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

27 May 2025 · Automotive Action Plan

Meeting with Pierpaolo Settembri (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas) and Autonome Lokomotivführer Gewerkschaften in Europa

20 May 2025 · Exchange of views on ALE’s priorities on rail

Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen and European Regional Aerodromes Community

20 May 2025 · Austausch zu EU Politik

Meeting with Hristo Petrov (Member of the European Parliament)

14 May 2025 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Sara Matthieu (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

28 Mar 2025 · Public Procurement

Trade unions demand mandatory social criteria in EU procurement

7 Mar 2025
Topic — The EU is evaluating rules governing public procurement and concession contracts.
Message — CESI demands mandatory social criteria and legal clarity in public tender procedures. They call for systematic union involvement and protection for workers during contract transfers.12
Why — Workers would gain better conditions and protection against wage repression tactics.3
Impact — Firms utilizing social dumping to win contracts would lose their competitive edge.4
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Meeting with Chloé Ridel (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · Trade Unions and Intergroup

Meeting with Catarina Martins (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · workers rights

Meeting with Grégory Allione (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Feb 2025 · Réunion CESI

Meeting with Li Andersson (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

12 Feb 2025 · Labour market politics

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

11 Feb 2025 · Priorities on employment and social affairs 2024/29

Meeting with Hanna Gedin (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Feb 2025 · Prospective INIs and Roadmap for Women's Rights

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament) and European Youth Forum and

15 Jan 2025 · Host for an Event on AI on Inclusive Futures: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on equal access and fair chances in European Education

Meeting with Dan Barna (Member of the European Parliament) and European Youth Forum and

15 Jan 2025 · Event on AI on Inclusive Futures: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on equal access and fair chances in European Education

Meeting with Estelle Ceulemans (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2024 · Dossier EMPL à venir

Meeting with Li Andersson (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

5 Nov 2024 · Labour market politics

Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Oct 2024 · Healthcare workforce

Meeting with Jana Toom (Member of the European Parliament) and EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION and

3 Oct 2024 · Social and Inclusive Growth

Meeting with Johan Danielsson (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Oct 2024 · Arbetsmarknadspolitik under mandatperioden

Meeting with Jana Toom (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Sept 2024 · Employment, social affairs and gender equality

Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Feb 2024 · Podiumsdiskussion und Austausch zu Europäischen Betriebsräten

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

19 Feb 2024 · The social partners agreement on digitalization of central public administration

Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2024 · CESI Talks

Meeting with José Gusmão (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

10 Jan 2024 · ECON files and EU's fiscal rules reform

Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

5 Dec 2023 · CESI projects

Meeting with Terry Reintke (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Oct 2023 · Social Policies

Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

28 Sept 2023 · Social dialogue

Meeting with Sylvie Brunet (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jul 2023 · Dialogue social

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Jul 2023 · Priorities of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Meeting with José Gusmão (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Jul 2023 · Equality bodies, quality framework for traineeships, economic governance system

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jul 2023 · Quality traineeships and decent working conditions of young people in the EU (APA level)

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Jul 2023 · Quality traineeships and decent working conditions of young people in the EU

Meeting with Lara Wolters (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Jun 2023 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

Meeting with Evin Incir (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

6 Jun 2023 · Våld mot kvinnor

Meeting with Ana Carla Pereira (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit) and SINDICATO DE ENFERMERIA SATSE

26 Apr 2023 · EU Care Strategy

Response to 2022 European Year of Youth – achievements and way forward

14 Apr 2023

***Please see the full statement in the attached pdf file.*** The European Year of Youth 2022 has been above all a response by the European Commission to the manifold adverse impacts that the Covid pandemic has had on young people across their social and working lives. As ways to mitigate the challenges brought by social and economic isolation as a result of the pandemic, but also to address broader issues for young people such as widespread precarious or zero employment and increasing costs of living, CESI Youth has for long been advocating in favour (1) of better approaches to school-to-work transitions; (2) ways to relief some of the financial burden for young people during their time of education and training; (3) improved mental health and self-actualisation at the workplace; (4) a recognised right to telework and a right to disconnect including for young workers. In this sense CESI Youth welcomed the European Year of Youth as a way to promote young peoples rights, interests and aspirations. According to CESI Youth, the European Year of Youth was an important initiative during times of political, social, and economic changes that have been taking place and have affected the (working) lives of young persons profoundly. It encouraged young people to play an active role in shaping their own future and that of their communities, as well as to promote a sense of European identity and citizenship. This was reflected in Decision (EU) 2021/2316 which formalised the European Year of Youth and which specified that the European Commission was supposed to enable youth organisations to assist in co-creating and implementing the European Year in including by means of joint meetings with representatives. Indeed, throughout 2022, a variety of events, initiatives, and activities were organised across Europe to promote the European Year of Youth. These included conferences, debates, cultural events, youth exchanges, and information campaigns, as well as online resources and tools designed to support the participation and engagement of young people. However, despite greater attention given to youth policies in 2022, CESI Youth believes that the European Year of Youth lacked an adequate and inclusive monitoring mechanism. Moreover, according to CESI Youth, the European Year of Youth must imperatively be followed by the introduction of a Youth Test an impact assessment tool to ensure that young people are considered when new EU laws are made as proposed by the European Youth Forum (EYF) and endorsed by the European Parliament in its resolution of November 24 2022 on the European Year of Youth 2022 legacy . CESI Youth supports such Youth Tests for any new EU policies and soft law measures as a sound way to anticipate ex-ante and measure ex-post impacts of policies on young people, in order to showcase, at the end, what real changes were achieved.
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Meeting with Katrin Langensiepen (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Mar 2023 · Austausch zu sozialpolitischen Themen

Independent trade unions demand stronger mental health rights at work

15 Feb 2023
Topic — The initiative sets out how the EU can contribute to mental health across policies.
Message — CESI calls for a right to disconnect and the respect of rest periods to prevent burnout. They request that mental health be integrated into mainstream economic policies and the European Semester monitoring.12
Why — Lowering absenteeism would reduce costs while empowering trade unions to influence workplace management.34
Impact — Management might face higher costs for implementing mandatory mental health programs and rest periods.5
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Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

1 Feb 2023 · Exchange of views on forest challenges related to climate change and other drivers of change, and the role of the firefighting profession including its life-saving role

Trade unions demand broader EU corporate tax reform scope

26 Jan 2023
Topic — The EU is creating a common corporate tax rulebook for businesses.
Message — The unions call for a harmonised system including both large corporations and small transnational businesses. They recommend using uniform EU standards rather than complex international rules to ensure greater tax justice.12
Why — Simplifying tax administration would free up finite personnel resources in public services.3
Impact — Companies exploiting arbitrary turnover thresholds would lose opportunities to commit tax fraud.4
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Response to European Disability Card

9 Jan 2023

CESI generally welcomes the envisaged initiative of the European Commission to introduce a new European Disability Card, as outlined in its Call for Evidence roadmap of November 23 2022, in order to promote persons with disabilities right to free movement and residence across the EU by facilitating the mutual recognition of disability status for national card holders within the EU. CESI stresses however the following: 1. While a new European Disability Card mainly aims at providing access to essential and disability related benefits as well as seamless social protection for the disabled, , it is important that a new Card will also span to related areas of employment and the world of work. In particular, where disabled persons move for work to another Member State, the Card should ensure a seamless provision and continuation of disability-related social benefits of the old Member State until the disability recognition process (including the setting of benefits) in the new Member State has been completed. Disabled persons should not fear to lose benefits in a transition phase of moving from one to another Member State for work. Having a guaranteed continuation of financial assistance in transition phases might actually encourage disabled persons, including those severely disabled, to make benefits of employment opportunities that the EU single market offers. This would constitute an important step towards equal opportunities for all parts of the population, as laid also out by principle 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights on equal opportunities. 2. An EU initiative on a European Disability Card should be pursued by means of a binding Directive or Regulation. Practical experience has shown that a non-binding Recommendation would not provide for an adequate and comparable implementation and enforcement mechanism of a new European Disability Card, especially where there is no incentivising EU-funding attached to it.
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Response to European Year of Skills 2023

14 Dec 2022

**See the attached position paper for further details** In view of the European Commissions proposal for a forthcoming European Year of Skills 2023, CESI welcomes, in Article 2, the the overall objective of the European Year shall be to further promote a mindset of reskilling and upskilling, but regrets an exclusive focus on boosting competitiveness of European companies, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises. Next to the private sector, the public sector, in particular public services and administrations, also face serious and increasing staff and skills shortages and often find themselves unable to compete for skills and talent with the private sector. Before adopting the proposal the European Parliament and Council should amend it to bring in a clear skills perspective for the public sector. CESI approves of the horizontal approach, in Article 2, that nobody must be left behind in green-digital transitions However, CESI disapproves of singling out, in Article 2(3) an incomplete set of selected vulnerable groups that need a specific focus, namely NEETs and women. In line with the description of the proposal preceding the articles, before adopting the proposal the European Parliament and Council should amend it to ensure that the European Year of Skills should feature equally and not discriminate between groups of vulnerable persons, spanning, most importantly, not only to women and NEETs but also to the disabled, migrant workers, older workers and workers from ethnic minorities that often find themselves less able to access and remain in labour markets. CESI agrees with the commitment of policy makers, in Article 2(2), to involve social partners in the shaping, design, roll-out and implementation of the Year of Skills, but regrets that the process leading to the European Commissions proposal has been ad-hoc, untransparent, unannounced and of top-down nature from policy making. Skills shortages has been a long-standing challenge in Europe, and it is disappointing that the Year was announced by European Commission President von der Leyen unexpectedly in September, to be followed by a legislative proposal for the Year by the European Commission only four weeks after. Social partners and other interested stakeholders had no opportunity to prepare for input, ideas and suggestions before the announcement earlier during the year, and in late September and early October time was short to engage meaningfully. Moreover, there was no formal ex-ante consultation process. CESI suggests that future Years should be set in a more timely, inclusive and transparent manner and urges the EU institutions to ensure meaningful and level-playing-field engagement of social partners and other stakeholders in the roll-out of the Year in 2023. CESI concurs with the wide range of awareness-raining activities that could and should be pursued during the Year, as laid out in Article 3. As a recognised sectoral European social partner organisation and interest group representing the voice of more than five million workers across Europe, CESI pledges to contribute to the European Year of Skills in 2023 in joint social partner activities as well as through own actions that aim to raise awareness about the Year among members and affiliates as well as bring their related interests and issues to the attention of the public and policy makers in particular. CESI suggests that the European Commission, as initiator and coordinator of the Year, should make dedicated funding available for European social partners to carry out actions under the Year, with transparent and equal access for all recognised social partners, sectoral and horizontal ones alike.
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Response to Strengthening social dialogue

20 Oct 2022

CESI welcomes the current review of social dialogue by the European Commission. In terms of this call for evidence, CESI refers to extensive and detailed consultation contributions it has already provided to the Social Dialogue Unit of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion as part of the formal social dialogue review exercise, most notably those of July 14 2021 (adopted by CESI on July 13 2021), January 9 2022 (adopted by CESI on December 20 2021), and May 26 2022 (adopted by CESI on May 25 2022).
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Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

26 Sept 2022 · Social Security Coordination

Response to Enabling factors for digital education

16 Sept 2022

CESI welcomes the initiative of the European Commission for Recommendations on enabling factors for success in digital education and on improving the provision of digital skills in education and training. CESI generally supports the considerations, scope and objectives of the initiatives as laid out in the European Commission’s roadmaps. CESI stresses that the Recommendations should not miss to focus on the following: 1. In education, teaching in digital technologies should be further expanded – but curricula for students must not be emptied of subjects that help them become responsible citizens of tomorrow, such as history, politics and ethics. In a world were political apathy is in many places substantial and liberal democracies often increasingly threatened, the formation of socially engaged and responsible, cosmopolitan, open-minded citizenry is crucial. 2. In employment, it is vital that employers – enterprises and public service providers alike – further recognise the importance of digital skills provision for the workforce. Digital skills help employees become more productive and allow them to develop professionally, and they allow companies to successfully manage inevitable digital transitions. It is an investment that pays off. As such, training opportunities in digital skills should be further fostered and encouraged by employers, and the provision of digital skills should take place in principle during paid working time. 3. In both education and employment, up-to-date teaching and training in digital technologies requires well-trained teachers. In particular, successful digital education and training necessitates that teachers are constantly trained and upskilled in relevant digital pedagogy and teaching methods. Face-to-face teaching methods which teachers acquired during their initial formation cannot be mapped one-to-one to new digital contexts. Their effective training and further training is a prerequisite for their ability to successfully teach pupils, students, and workers. Teachers must receive high-quality basic digital training and they must have opportunities to perfect their digital skills during the course of their careers. 4. Furthermore, for digital education to function, the provision of digital equipment for students and schools is just as important to close digital gaps as is the provision of digital equipment for teachers, which should not be neglected. Too often, teachers still have to chip in digital equipment for teaching from their private resources. 5. Moreover, generally, employment and working conditions for teaching must improve in many Member States in order to attract, recruit and retain more talented young persons into this occupational field and to counter widespread teacher shortages. This is especially true for the areas of VET, lifelong learning, and the education of adults. Several Member States still see abusive uses of precarious consecutive fixed-term work contracts for teachers that expire every year during the summer vacation time so that no wages and social security coverage needs to be paid during this time. Also, teaching is too often still not a profession that enjoys a high social standing in the eyes of a majority of the population. Its low prestige frustrates the recruiting and retaining teachers in both rich and poor countries. Teaching is a highly valuable profession, and guaranteeing teachers decent salaries and improving their working conditions on all levels of the educational system is of central importance. With regards to this major responsibility, education professionals must enjoy high-quality working conditions. Their work and contribution to society must be adequately valued and recognised.
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Response to Improving the provision of digital skills in education and training

16 Sept 2022

CESI welcomes the initiative of the European Commission for Recommendations on enabling factors for success in digital education and on improving the provision of digital skills in education and training. CESI generally supports the considerations, scope and objectives of the initiatives as laid out in the European Commission’s roadmaps. CESI stresses that the Recommendations should not miss to focus on the following: 1. In education, teaching in digital technologies should be further expanded – but curricula for students must not be emptied of subjects that help them become responsible citizens of tomorrow, such as history, politics and ethics. In a world were political apathy is in many places substantial and liberal democracies often increasingly threatened, the formation of socially engaged and responsible, cosmopolitan, open-minded citizenry is crucial. 2. In employment, it is vital that employers – enterprises and public service providers alike – further recognise the importance of digital skills provision for the workforce. Digital skills help employees become more productive and allow them to develop professionally, and they allow companies to successfully manage inevitable digital transitions. It is an investment that pays off. As such, training opportunities in digital skills should be further fostered and encouraged by employers, and the provision of digital skills should take place in principle during paid working time. 3. In both education and employment, up-to-date teaching and training in digital technologies requires well-trained teachers. In particular, successful digital education and training necessitates that teachers are constantly trained and upskilled in relevant digital pedagogy and teaching methods. Face-to-face teaching methods which teachers acquired during their initial formation cannot be mapped one-to-one to new digital contexts. Their effective training and further training is a prerequisite for their ability to successfully teach pupils, students, and workers. Teachers must receive high-quality basic digital training and they must have opportunities to perfect their digital skills during the course of their careers. 4. Furthermore, for digital education to function, the provision of digital equipment for students and schools is just as important to close digital gaps as is the provision of digital equipment for teachers, which should not be neglected. Too often, teachers still have to chip in digital equipment for teaching from their private resources. 5. Moreover, generally, employment and working conditions for teaching must improve in many Member States in order to attract, recruit and retain more talented young persons into this occupational field and to counter widespread teacher shortages. This is especially true for the areas of VET, lifelong learning, and the education of adults. Several Member States still see abusive uses of precarious consecutive fixed-term work contracts for teachers that expire every year during the summer vacation time so that no wages and social security coverage needs to be paid during this time. Also, teaching is too often still not a profession that enjoys a high social standing in the eyes of a majority of the population. Its low prestige frustrates the recruiting and retaining teachers in both rich and poor countries. Teaching is a highly valuable profession, and guaranteeing teachers decent salaries and improving their working conditions on all levels of the educational system is of central importance. With regards to this major responsibility, education professionals must enjoy high-quality working conditions. Their work and contribution to society must be adequately valued and recognised.
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Response to Brain drain communication

21 Jun 2022

CESI welcomes the initiative of the European Commission. In response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence document, CESI: • supports the EU Single Market’s principle of free movement of workers, goods, services and capital and notes that brain drain emigration may help to meet skills shortages in the labour market of Member States with the most advantageous working conditions and social protection coverage, but is deeply concerned about the long term effects of such migratory flows of workers for the countries of origin. These face depopulation of vast regions that are left un-serviced and deprived due to lack of professionals, to the detriment of the population and the economic perspective of the country at large. They lose out financially when they educate their workforces in the public education systems, only to see them move away afterwards to work elsewhere. Such developments, in time, widen the financial disparities, living standards and economic performance between more and less advantaged countries and regions. In an EU Single Market with free movement of labour, there is a strong role of the EU to set the frame for ethical, sustainable and fair labour migration in Europe and help balance out push and pull factors of labour migration and address its complex and diverse socio-economic consequences. • notes that in the next 10 years it is estimated that in 1 out of 5 EU Members States 25% of the current workforce will retire and that the working age population will shrink by 4%. This puts pressure on the sustainability of social protection systems. The challenge of brain drain is not only about balancing out push-and-pull factors between countries in Europe but also about a strategic and integrated approach to address the consequences of overall shrinking workforces in Europe. • acknowledges that shrinking workforces mean that labour availability is becoming increasingly scarce, which in turn increases competition for workers among regions and countries. In theory, this competition should lead to better working conditions. However, experience has shown that the opposite may occur: The desire of professionals from disadvantaged regions and countries move to more wealthy regions and countries is often so strong that many accept working conditions which are worse that these region’s or country’s standard (even if still better than the standards in the region or country of origin). The EU brain drain initiative should be sensitive to such considerations. • notes that brain drain is especially critical in the area of essential services, which are often public services. Essential services must always be readily available, sufficient in scope and adequate in quality for all EU citizens. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this was not the case. For accessible, available and high quality essential services, adequate investments must target both facilities and infrastructure as well as equipment and, above all, human resources. Many essential public services are understaffed while working conditions are precarious and pay for personnel is often inadequate. As long as these shortcomings persists, quality services cannot be delivered. In light of potential future crises, which are sure to occur, the EU brain drain initiative should put an emphasis on addressing brain drain issues in essential public services. • Implementing the EU brain drain initiative, and implementing the above considerations of CESI in particular, will require that: - EU cohesion policy and the EU’s structural and investment funds are further tailored to mitigate causes and consequences of brain drain. - the EU’s economic governance framework is sensitive to allow necessary investments by Member States to structurally address brain drain. - brian drain is addressed systematically in the European Semester process and its country reports and country-specific recommendations. See further details i nthe attached position paper.
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Meeting with Samira Rafaela (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

17 Jun 2022 · Pay Transparency

Meeting with Ciarán Cuffe (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Jun 2022 · Upcoming legislation on rail and train drivers

Meeting with Pablo Fabregas Martinez (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

14 Jun 2022 · transport

Response to Guidance on distributional impact assessments

2 May 2022

CESI broadly welcomes the initiative of the European Commission, as laid out in its Call for Evidence published on April 4 2022, to issue guidelines for the Member States to carry out ex-ante distributional impact assessments (DIAs) in their national policy making in order to prevent them from having direct or indirect adverse on poverty levels and household incomes. CESI agrees with the objective of the initiative. CESI has for long proposed a new European Social Deal, analogous to the European Green Deal, which is placed in the centre of the EU institutions’ activities, making social fairness, decent work and equal opportunities an overarching priority. Like environmental and climate protection, social measures often fall victim to allegedly necessary policies to stay ‘economically competitive’ and not ‘overburden’ businesses and employers. After the post-2007 crisis, recent years have seen a shift away from the social and towards climate protection, and green policies have remained a priority in the post-Covid recovery response by the EU and the Member States. Social policy priorities appear to be pushed further aside as the Ukrainian crisis evolves and impacts on the EU’s economy. While climate protection and economic growth is undoubtedly centrally important, social inequalities persist in Europe and must not be pushed to the background. Therefore, as the EU agrees to set concrete targets to become climate neutral and rebounce economically strong from the Covid crisis, it should set equally ambitious targets for social fairness, decent work and equal opportunities – via a new European Social Deal. While the European Commission’s initiative on DIAs goes in the right direction of a European Social Deal, CESI criticises that it falls short of it. The policy instrument envisaged by the European Commission to realise DIAs in the Member States – guidelines issued by means of Communication – is unfortunately not as effective as binding targets via a directive or a regulation. In the absence of hard regulation, it appears that at least the European Commission’s envisaged monitoring process of the implementation of DIAs by the Member States – regular informational provided to the Social Protection Committee and the Employment Committee and regular reviews of DIA practice in Member States and mutual learning events aimed at further improving tools and methodologies used to conduct DIAs – could be strengthened. Moreover, the guidelines should make clear and explicit that DIAs should be streamlined and applied in all policy fields. Their scope should not remain vaguely defined as pertaining to “planned budgetary measures and other reforms” in the areas “such as employment, taxation, social protection and social inclusion”, as the Call for Evidence phrases it.
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Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

25 Apr 2022 · social services, sectoral social dialogue

Response to Recommendation on minimum income

1 Apr 2022

CESI broadly welcomes an EU initiative to strengthen minimum income schemes in the EU. Overall, CESI shares the European Commission’s assessment of challenges in the field of minimum income schemes across the Member States, as laid out in its Call for Evidence published in March 2022, but disagrees with the envisaged policy instrument, a Council Recommendation, to address these challenges. Without binding standards by means of a directive, a cross-cutting implementation and enforcement of EU provisions on minimum income schemes in the Member States is unlikely. For further details, please see the attached position.
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Response to Proposal for a Council Recommendation on long-term care

29 Mar 2022

CESI broadly welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to address existing and rising challenges in the child care and long-term care sector in a holistic, European-wide manner. CESI generally shares the assessment of the care sector in the EU as described in the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the subject matter, published on March 1 2022. An EU care strategy should above all: 1. match the supply of affordable and high quality care to increasing levels of demand. 2. help step up staff attraction and staff retention. 3. create a level-playing field to ensure a balance in the provision of accessible, affordable and high-quality care services across regions and countries. 4. ensure inclusive consultation and social dialogue for affordable, accessible and high quality care services. At EU level, this would translate into a social dialogue on care/social services which is inclusive: All actors which, as per applicable representativeness study of Eurofound, fulfil the conditions of Commission Decision 98/500/EC to be fully recognised social partners, should be given the opportunity to participate in a European social dialogue care/social services sector – including CESI. Further information and details are available in the attached position paper.
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Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

24 Nov 2021 · social aspects of the Green Deal and Fit for 55

Response to Social and labour aspects of the climate transition

19 Nov 2021

CESI welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to address social and labour aspects of the just transition towards climate neutrality, as part of its European Green Deal. CESI agrees with the dimensions of the initiative which the European Commission proposes in its roadmap to address social and labour aspects of the just transition towards climate neutrality: (1) Designing comprehensive policy packages for a just and sustainable green transition; (2) promoting inclusive participation of workers; and (3) making optimal use of public and private funding. In general, a Council Recommendation, as is envisaged by the European Commission to pursue this initiative, is however insufficient to achieve socially fair and sustainable green transitions for workers. Experience has shown that Member States implement (or not) non-binding Recommendations at goodwill. CESI questions the impact that a Recommendation would have. A more holistic approach and streamlining across EU legislation would instead be necessary, comprising, for instance: (1) further reviewing EU legislation with the aim to better enforce existing legislation and identify legislative gaps to close and make labour markets and working conditions fairer and fit for the green age, including through a framework directive for decent work, a framework directive for adequate social protection for all, and EU legislation which ensures that, in principle, all atypical employment relationships that currently give rise to precarious work or bogus self-employment should entail the same entitlements and benefits as permanent contracts, the only exception being their temporary duration or restricted time of applicability; (2) further measures for a strengthened participation of workers and their representatives in change management, including boosted information and consultation legislation in Europe, an improved functioning of European Works Councils; better support for inclusive social dialogue and trade union pluralism so that all workers count and no one is left behind, and enhanced EU funding for strengthened capacity building for EU and national level social partners and trade unions to engage in change management, especially for smaller and independent unions without sufficient own resources to this end; (3) more emphasis in the EU macroeconomic governance system and in EU funding tools, e.g. through the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Just Transition Fund European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, to ensure that the necessary resources and infrastructure are provided to give to the at-risk jobs of today a future. The EU must enable governments to invest in pioneering zero-carbon steel plants, fabrication yards and ports, and domestic supply chains that competitive industries of tomorrow need. Governments must invest, too, in the public sector and infrastructures. More details in the attached position.
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Meeting with Janez Lenarčič (Commissioner)

21 Oct 2021 · European strategy to tackle forest fires

Meeting with Cyrus Engerer (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Sept 2021 · Protection of Workers from Asbestos

Response to Business taxation for the 21st century

1 Apr 2021

CESI broadly supports the rationale and the objectives which the European Commission lays out in its roadmap of March 2021 on a future Communication on business taxation for the 21st century. CESI stresses that inadequate or ineffective taxation levels for firms and companies are a problem for the sustainability of public finances and prevent appropriate financing in essential public services and performing administrations for citizens. This hurts especially the most vulnerable members of the societies that cannot buy in substitutive private services, thus leading to further increasing socio-economic inequalities. The Covid-19 crisis will likely accelerate already existent socio-economic polarisations and fragmentations in European societies, -still scarred by the financial and public debt crisis of a decade ago- leading to further inequalities and disparities, social exclusion and poverty. Additional public and social investments will be necessary and require substantial fiscal space. Against this background, CESI agrees with the European Commission’s roadmap’s stance that an effective fair taxation of business is acutely needed. This acuteness is further increased as demographic change, and the green and digital transitions will require even more public investments than in the past if Europe’s social living standards, its infrastructures and its economic competitiveness are to be maintained and enhanced. CESI agrees with the view of the European Commission, as laid out in its roadmap, that the current corporate tax frameworks in Europe need swift, comprehensive and ambitious reforms to meet the realities of a post-Covid green, digitalised, competitive and social market economy. CESI emphasises that, as workers pay their share of taxes and are hardly affected by tax avoidance or tax evasion, tax systems need to ensure a fair burden-sharing and make sure that firms and companies contribute their fair share too. To this end, CESI: • calls for a holistic and ambitious EU business taxation environment where adequate taxes are paid effectively and where companies are taxed where they operate and make profits. This environment must be based on a level-playing field with common rules that prevent a race to the bottom in corporate taxation rates and close loopholes that allow for aggressive tax planning, tax avoidance and tax evasion. Central tools for this include the establishment of a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB), measures to bring down base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), and the introduction of a substantial and ambitious digital GAFA tax for companies with mobile business income. • reiterates the importance of investments in the (digital) equipment and resources and as well as in the training, employment and working conditions of staff of national tax administrations and tax inspectorates. Tax rules and systems on paper are always only as a strong as tax administrations are effectively able to collect due taxes. Through tools such as the European Semester, the European Commission should encourage Member States to address understaffed and under-resourced tax administrations, based on the very plausible assumption that the work of tax staff against tax evasion and tax avoidance can generate high revenues to public finances and pay off multiple times, if the framework conditions are right. The European Commission should complement this by ensuring that there is sufficient flexibility in the EU’s economic governance framework (Stability and Growth Pact) to allow Member States to engage in the necessary investments in tax administrations. CESI notes that the Communication on business taxation for the 21st century should emphasise the central importance of a meaningful inclusion of the personnel, its representatives, and the social partners in the design of reforms of taxation and tax administrations. Often, they know best how their own performance and those of their administration could be improved.
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Response to Mind the VAT Gap

3 Mar 2021

CESI broadly supports the rationale which the European Commission lays out in its roadmap of February 2021 on measures to reduce the VAT gap (the difference between due and actually collected VAT revenues) in Europe in order to help the governments of the Member States finance the protection of jobs and the recovery of their countries in the current Covid crisis. CESI agrees on the acuteness of the issue, notes however that a VAT gap has been a problem for public finances and prevented more social and economic fairness in Europe for many years already. CESI welcomes in particular the recognition that the Member States’ tax administration capacity to collect VAT will play an important role for the recovery from the crisis. To this end, CESI: - notes that capacity is always preconditioned by adequate financial resources: In its prospective possible Communication, the European Commission should encourage Member States to invest in the (digital) equipment, resources and staff of their tax administrations and tax inspectorates, based on the very plausible assumption that this generates high revenues to public finances and pays off multiple times. There are few investments in public finances and social fairness as effective as this. The European Commission should also make sure to promote this approach further in the European Semester and ensure that there is sufficient flexibility in the EU’s economic governance framework (Stability and Growth Pact) to allow Member States to engage in the necessary investments. - welcomes the European Commission’s plans to strengthen exchanges of best practices between tax administrations in Europe on how to reform administrations (also digitally) in a way that supports a better collection of due VAT, and to promote EU level tools and financing to implement such reforms at the national levels. CESI notes that the Communication should emphasise the importance of a meaningful inclusion of the personnel, its representatives and the social partners in the design of any reforms of administrations. Often, they know best how their own performance and those of their administration could be improved. The Communication should also put a priority on the training and further training of staff, including on European and international administrative cooperation, as a core component to deliver the full capacity of well-resourced in tax administrations and tax inspectorates.
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Response to Collective bargaining agreements for self-employed – scope of application EU competition rules

3 Feb 2021

A general prohibition of collective bargaining for the self-employed via trade unions on the grounds that there may be cartel-forming through joint wage negotiations which is not in line with the spirit and the purpose of EU competition law. Justifying the prohibition of collective bargaining by reference to the need to maintain the integrity of the single market (article 101 TFEU) is a misplaced contextualisation of EU law, especially when it is applied to vulnerable and precarious self-employed persons (these often working as solo self-employed and having only few or a single customer). This misplaced contextualisation is all the more true when considering that collective bargaining only affects the wage of the service provider and thus only a limited part of the total cost of a service provision, which is in fact determined by many further elements. Here, the establishment and preservation of collective ‘wage’-bargaining powers are legitimate to guarantee a general balance of powers and interests between all actors involved, i.e. the service provider the service taker, and, given the case, the intermediate (such as platforms), and to avoid that those concerned are excessively sold out by market powers and forced to provide work for indecently low wage levels. It is therefore of major importance to allow and strengthen the collective labour rights especially of the precarious and vulnerable self-employed. CESI would greatly appreciate the extension of the right to collective bargaining especially to the precarious and the vulnerable self-employed. CESI stresses that such a right to collective bargaining must be embedded in a four-tier approach which gives the concerned self-employed (1) the right to join trade unions, (2) the right to collective bargaining, (3) the right to become a part of collective agreements, and thus (4) also the right to take industrial action. Option 3 should be the preferred policy solution, making EU competition law compatible with collective bargaining at least for all solo self-employed providing their own labour through digital platforms or to professional customers of any size with the exception of regulated (and liberal) professions. This should be implemented by a clear Council regulation and be coupled to a clear-cut definition and a positive list of regulated liberal professions which are not facing precarious employment as a result of their self-employment (e.g. heads of notary, auditor and tax advising practices, architect bureaus, pharmacies, dental practices). CESI stresses that this initiative should not be aimed to alleviate challenges for the bogus self-employed, which by definition is work in exploitative and precarious conditions. Bogus self-employed are denied regular employee contracts because employers want to avoid higher social ‘costs’. Supporting the right of collective bargaining for the bogus self-employed would mean treating symptoms, not tackling roots. Bogus self-employed are, as the term reveals, false self-employed and de facto employees. What is necessary here is to ensure that they are considered as regular employees with all consequences (regular individual and collective labour law and rights and social security schemes applied to them), thus eliminating bogus self-employment in the first place. Clear legal frameworks are required and (well-staffed and resourced) labour inspectorates need to be put in place to control their application and issue (deterring) sanctions for violations. It should be noted that the problem of bogus solo self-employment currently also persists in regulated liberal professions (among lawyers, dentists, etc), where persons may be employed under precarious self-employment conditions while they are in fact dependent workers (in the law firm, dental practice), just like regular private sector employees.
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Response to Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (codification)

8 Apr 2020

The proposal for a new Directive on administrative cooperation in the tax area is a technical work on the administrative level, containing no new measure to strengthen the cooperation rules. Therefore CESI hopes that the proposal is not the final act of DAC directives, but a new efficient base for further tax cooperation actions in a more transparent way.
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Response to Action Plan on fight against tax fraud

31 Mar 2020

The ‘new’ European Commission should continue the efforts of the ‘previous’ Commission, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, in the area of the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and curbing aggressive tax planning during the last five years. After the tax scandals published by the ICIJ, the European Commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Pierre Moscovici tried hard to work efficiently against unfair tax competition and launched very useful directives in the field of taxation. The fight against unfair tax behaviour with the aim to achieve a fairer taxation has to be continued by using the advantage of technological developments. In this context, importantly, new initiatives to tackle tax evasion should not only aim, as an ultimate solution and a goal in itself, to just simplify tax systems and make compliance easier, for such initiatives often risk leading to minimum tax rates, flat tax and socially unfair taxation. Policy initiatives should follow the guiding principle that the objective of fairness should take precedence over mere simplification.
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Response to Report on the Application and Evaluation of the Postal Services Directive

27 Mar 2020

Joint UNI-CESI statement: We reaffirm the crucial role postal services play as services of general economic interest. They are a vector of democracy & guarantee the fundamental right to communication as a basic need of EU citizens. The Postal Services Directive (PSD) promised increased quality; greater efficiency & better customer-orientation; lower prices; stronger growth to create more & better jobs. These have not come to pass. Competition in the letters markets is limited to profitable areas only. Liberalisation exacerbated the capacity to sustainably finance the Universal Service (US). Faced with letter volume decline, posts diversified. These generated different financial realities with different market shares in the e-Commerce parcels markets. Competition in parcels is based on price, not quality. Competition is almost exclusively based on wages. Market failures are observed in last-mile parcels delivery, as postal operators & parcel providers do not abide by similar labour regulations. Postal markets were disrupted by eCommerce growth. Postal companies prepared for competition through restructuring; outsourcing, franchising & new subsidiaries; new technologies; downsizing the network; new forms of employment. Cost-saving measures had negative implications for service quality. Citizens spend more time and travel farther to access postal services. Social & territorial cohesion is losing importance and affordability comes at the cost of lower quality. Postal liberalisation resulted in significant job losses. Part-time work is the norm and the use of subcontractors & self-employed workers increased. To be competitive in the growing parcels sector, postal companies use low labour-cost models, employment cuts, freeze wages, reduced pay & create new job categories. Any revision should enact a fully-fledged citizen right to consume postal products (letters and parcels) based on an informed choice. This choice is informed when all market players abide by similar rules, which is currently not the case. In assessing the relevance and EU added value of the PSD, it is of utmost importance to consider how far the US mission to benefit the citizens and the consumers is met. Particular attention should be placed on vulnerable users. Market operators ought to compete within a regulatory level-playing field that abides by social and environmental standards and does not engage in a race-to-the-bottom. The scope and quality of universal postal networks must be maintained and enhanced. In many parts of Europe, notably rural areas, postal services are the only means of communication and social inclusion. The crucial role of posts in promoting social and territorial cohesion must be upheld. The PSD revision must ensure a full citizen right to regular and affordable parcel delivery at uniform prices in a national territory. This requires strong market regulation that guarantees good working conditions, decent wages, and high quality of service. National regulators could be made responsible to ensure that all market operators comply with minimum social and environmental standards. The recent Regulation does not address the instances of unfair competition. We call for quality of service indicators to reflect an expansive definition of the US. The definition of the US at minimum must be maintained at EU level to ensure the relevance of the PSD in the internal market for postal services and allow an EU added value. Instances of unfair competition must be impeded by upholding fair practices in terms of labour conditions, environmental performance and quality of service. All market players involved in US provision must contribute to its financing. Companies must not be able to cherry-pick only profitable areas. Delivery has a price. Free delivery advertisements create market distortions. Liberalisation must include social cohesion measures to ensure decent wages & good working conditions for all market players involved in the postal supply chain.
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Response to Fast-track interservice consultation on the 'SEIP including a JTM and the JTF"

12 Mar 2020

CESI recognises and supports the need for a Just Transition Fund. While the transition to a greener economy is a necessity to fight climate change, workers and regions should not be left behind.
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Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

10 Mar 2020 · European minimum wage framework

Response to Gender equality in the EU

13 Feb 2020

CESI greatly appreciates the commitment of the new von der Leyen-Commission to a new EU gender equality strategy, as laid out in the European Commission’s roadmap for a gender equality strategy 2020-2024. Following a lower-level ‘Strategic engagement’ for gender equality between 2016 and 2019, CESI welcomes the announced return to a fully-fledged gender equality strategy in the form of a Communication. Given the continuously very slow progress towards gender equality in many areas of employment and societal and domestic life across the EU and its Member States, CESI supports an ambitious strategy which includes not only soft instruments, but also concrete, hard measures and proposals. According to CESI, a new EU gender equality strategy should include a particular focus on the following employment-related aspects: (1) encouraging an equal sharing of domestic responsibilities between men and women, (2) overcoming persistent wage and pension gaps, (3) increasing the share of women in leadership positions, and (4) making labour markets more gender-sensitive.
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Response to European Partnership for innovative health

21 Aug 2019

CESI (https://www.cesi.org/), the European Confederation of Independent Trade Union, is an organization which represents the interests of 38 trade unions from 21 European countries, amounting to roughly 5 million public and private sector employees. Most of CESI’s affiliates are working in the public sector. The CESI ‘Health’ Trade Council is made up of representatives (mostly practitioners) from various European organisations from the health sector. CESI members active in the sanitary sector believe that innovation in health is of tremendous importance and that this should be made a priority for European medical systems. In CESI's opinion health innovation should take into account the current limitations (ageing population, shortages of medical staff and budget constraints, environmental limitations and transformations in the work conditions). CESI believes that the digitalization of healthcare and the extended use of new technologies in the medical sector should be brought in gradually, with prior consultation of all the stakeholders concerned; all ethical concerns should be taken into consideration and clarified. In depth ethical debates on the limits of digitalization, robotisation and the use of artificial intelligence in the provision of healthcare must pave the way for a humane use of new technologies. Horizon Europe programmes and innovations developed under this framework should give importance to the human factor working in the health sector. It represents a resource which could be explored more through consultation, direct involvement in the innovation process and lastly through information and up-skilling.
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Response to More efficient law-making in taxation: a move to QMV

18 Jan 2019

About CESI The European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI) is a confederation of 38 trade union organisations from 19 European countries and 4 European trade union organisations, with a total of more than 5 million individual members. Most of CESI’s affiliates are employed in the fields of central, regional and local administration, security and justice, education, training and research, healthcare, postal services and telecommunications, defence and transport. CESI also represents tax administration trade unions in several Member States and is a member of the European Commission’s Tax Good Governance Platform. Consultation response The European Commission work programme for 2019 includes a non-legislative initiative on a gradual transition to more efficient and democratic decision-making in EU tax policy envisaged by the EU Treaties. CESI supports the roadmap for a progressive and targeted transition to qualified majority voting (QMV) under the ordinary legislative procedure in EU taxation policy. One size does not fit all but considering how much tax elusion and tax avoidance has become more sophisticated, generating also the increase of competitive forces between Member States, there is a need to close the loopholes and find common ground in EU. One of the key consequences of a change from unanimous voting to QMV in the Council in selected areas is that decision making can no longer be blocked unilaterally and, often, egoistically by single Member States. Politically, thus, the lowest common denominators needed for decisions can, in theory, be raised, which means that this could pave the way for more ambitious legislation in the field of taxation, leading to higher minimum standards. With the EU being a supranational integration project, QMV would help take effective European approaches and decisions in the common interest. Moving from a special legislative (e.g. consultation) procedure to the ordinary legislative (i.e. co-decision) procedure means that the European Parliament becomes a real co-legislator on an equally powerful footing with the Member States in the Council, instead of being just consulted. In the past, the European Parliament has often shown to be more progressive and ambitious in taxation matters than many Member States in the Council. An introduction of the ordinary legislative procedure in EU taxation policy may, therefore, promise more ambitious EU legislation in taxation. In this sense, the application of QMV would in the past likely have led to a real European Union Financial Transaction Tax (EU FTT) and lead to more ambitious rules on taxation of the digital economy. While being aware of the competencies and prerogatives of the Member States in taxation policy, moving on to QMV and the ordinary legislative procedure would also respond to the need long advocated by trade unions to complement the advanced economic integration and the completion of the EU single market with a real taxation dimension which also responds to a need to achieve fair and adequate (especially corporate) taxation for more social equality. In sum, CESI advocates a progressive, targeted transition to qualified majority voting in the Council in taxation policy.
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Response to More efficient law-making in social policy: identification of areas for an enhanced move to qualified majority voting

14 Jan 2019

Moving from a special legislative (e.g. consultation) procedure to the ordinary legislative (i.e. co-decision) procedure means that the European Parliament finally becomes a real co-legislator on an equally powerful footing with the Member States in the Council, instead of being just consulted. In the past, the European Parliament has often shown to be more socially progressive and ambitious than many Member States in the Council. An introduction of the ordinary legislative procedure in EU social policy may therefore promise more socially ambitious EU legislation. The recent proposal of the European Commission for a legally non-binding, loose Council Recommendation on access to social protection (with the Council as sole decision-taker and voting by unanimity) is an example of a file that could have been more easily a proposal for a binding Directive with teeth (falling under the ordinary legislative procedure), had a Passerelle Clause been made use of already. Notwithstanding the undoubtedly high quality content of the proposal, its legal status of a non-binding Council Recommendation means it is at high risk of becoming a paper tiger of very limited impact. According to CESI, it appears that the European Commission refrained from tabling a Directive precisely it anticipated that there would be no unanimous support in the Council for binding rules and the file would therefore be dead from the beginning. CESI therefore believes that QMV and the ordinary legislative procedure should be introduced in as many social policy subfields as is possible under the EU Treaties’ passerelle clause provisions. While being aware of the competences and prerogatives of the Member States in social affairs, moving on to QMV and the ordinary legislative procedure in social policy would also respond to the need long advocated by trade unions to complement the advanced economic integration and the completion of the EU single market with a real social dimension which responds to permanently evolving realities on the labour market. More and more flexible, mobile and digital work and the spread of -mostly still unregulated- new forms of employment across borders in the EU necessitate certain binding and ambitious minimum social standards for workers and employees beyond national legal orders. This is in the spirit of the ‘Triple Social A-Ranking for the EU which President Juncker announced at start of his mandate and must be an essential feature of the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Delivering on this is also vital to maintain the citizens’ trust in institutions which are capable of responding to the concrete needs of the citizens, which clearly are of social nature at the European level as well. Effective EU policy making is therefore in the end not only in the interest of the EU but also of that of the Member States. CESI therefore advocates a transition to QMV in the Council and to the ordinary legislative procedure in those fields of social policy that this can be applied to under the Treaties.
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Meeting with Lowri Evans (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

24 Sept 2018 · Presentation of CESI, state of play of European Defence Fund

Meeting with Piet van Nuffel (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

22 May 2018 · Social Fairness package

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

7 Nov 2017 · Meeting with ATCEUC and CESI to discuss EC's communication on "Aviation: open and connected Europe"

Meeting with Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

14 Jul 2017 · Promotion of values through education

Meeting with Ruth Paserman (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen) and Eurodiaconia

11 Jul 2017 · Public social investments in the macroeconomic governance framework

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)

9 Feb 2017 · Teachers and education against radicalisation

Meeting with Baudouin Baudru (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen), Ruth Paserman (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen), Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen) and

9 Feb 2017 · CESI-Eurodiaconia-Social Platform initiative

Meeting with Raquel Lucas (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

23 Nov 2016 · Exchange of views ahead of CESI Congress; Social dialogue

Meeting with Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

23 Nov 2016 · Radicalisation and teachers

Meeting with Raquel Lucas (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

26 May 2015 · CESI profile and presentation; EU social policy and social partner involvement; Information and consultation of workers in public administrations.

Meeting with Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

10 Feb 2015 · Working conditions for healthcare workers who may be exposed to Ebola