SOCIAL DIALOGUE : REHN: 'TRADE UNIONS HAVE AN ESSENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE'.

• Position: Olli Rehn

On 28 January in Madrid, Spain, three hundred people attended the 40th anniversary conference of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), showing that they continue to believe that trade unions play "a central role". In the current context, where the social and budget crisis is in full blow and mass redundancies are being carried out, all the participants - including representatives of the EU institutions - stressed how valuable strong social dialogue can be. In his keynote speech, Economic and...