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5 rules for making employers and employees trust each other again

January 4, 2019 by World Economic Forum Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers US The debate about the future of work has largely focused on jobs – what they will look like, the decline of well-paid jobs for lower skilled workers, and how jobs will […]

Draghi tells the EU Parliament his relaxed policies are here to stay

March 1, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The too slow or non existing pace of wage increases is the main reason for the non revival of inflation in Eurozone. This is what Mario Draghi told the Economic Committee of the European Parliament last Monday. He added that this is why the economic slack in the euro area may be larger than we […]

Filed Under: Eurozone, Policy Tagged With: Berlin, Bundesbank, ECB, economic slack, employers, euro area, European Central Bank, European Parliament, Eurozone, forward guidance, Germany, incomes policy, inflation, Jens Weidmann, Mario Draghi, MEPs, monetary easing, monetary policy, net asset purchases, price increases, stock of assets, wage increases, wage negotiations, zero interest rates, zero rates

The Commission tries to stop the ‘party’ with the structural funds

January 8, 2014 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

In a long awaited move, the European Commission boosts the role of trade unions, the employers’ organisations and the non-governmental organisations of civil society in allocating and monitoring the spending of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). What is at stake relates to the resources bestowed by the European Union to the European Regional […]

Filed Under: Employment & Social Affairs, Policy, Regional Tagged With: CF, civil society, Cohesion Fund, EAFRD, EMFF, employers, ERDF, ESF, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, investments, structural funds, workers

The EU Commission does nothing about the food retailing oligopoly

February 23, 2013 by Suzan A. Kane 1 Comment

The theoretically most competitive of all EU markets, namely the large food retailing business, is accused by its suppliers, regrouped in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) of operating a real oligopoly. Despite this very important development, which poses an issue with ground-breaking repercussions on the way our ‘free competition’ economies operate, the European […]

Filed Under: AgroFood, Competition, Policy Tagged With: agro-food, EESC, employers, Retail

Social Committee teaches Van Rompuy a lesson

January 24, 2013 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

During this months’ European Economic and Social Committee’s plenary session, EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy and EESC members held a very important debate on the current guidelines of the European Council and future efforts to reinforce the social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Obviously the EESC members wanted to cover the […]

Filed Under: Employment & Social Affairs, Policy Tagged With: Economic and Monetary Union, EESC, employers, European Economic and Social Committee, Herman van Rompuy, workers