ECONOMIC CRISIS : ETUC WANTS CLEAR AND FOCUSED SOCIAL INITIATIVES.

• Position: European Trade Union Confederation - Brief article

According to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), in today's "unprecedented" economic crisis, a social progress protocol must be added as an annex to the EU treaties in order to reaffirm the "pre-eminence of fundamental rights over single market rules". This would prevent "reversions to nationalism and protectionism" by those "hit hardest by the crisis or likely to be affected soon," ETUC General Secretary John Monks said in a memorandum delivered, on 28 January, to Czech Prime...