The European trade union movement launched last March a campaign to fight the social and economic crisis. ETUC is on the offensive for a New Social Deal in Europe, calling for: an extended recovery programme; stronger welfare states; an end to the recent decisions of the European Court of Justice favouring market freedoms over workers’ fundamental rights and collective agreements; an effective regulation of financial markets and a fair distribution of wealth.

This wide-ranging campaign ‘Fight the crisis: put the people first’ places citizens at the heart of the campaign and will serve to make the governments assume their responsibility of providing European responses to the crisis, rather than simply taking case-by-case measures. Read more, click here