Articles from France
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-06-05 Equality Recommendations Proposed
The ETUCE Standing Committee for Equality proposed a set of recommendations in its last meeting on 2-3 June 2014. The recommendations shall be presented for adoption to the ETUCE Committee in October 2014.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-05-20 Winds of change for Europe: 25 May 2014 vote for Europe
ETUCE is calling on all its affiliates to vote for candidates that can change the course of austerity policies in Europe, to vote for a social and democratic Europe.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2014-05-06 Journée de l’Europe
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-05-06 Secret negotiations threaten public services in 50 countries
The 6th round of secret negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement took place in Geneva during last week. The participants (the EU, Australia, Canada, Chile, Taiwan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey and the...
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Standards and working conditions 2014-04-23 France: Government renews its pledge to reform education
The new French Prime Minister says he will forge ahead with promised education reforms as three national teachers’ unions challenged his government to put quality education at the top of his agenda.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-04-23 Teaching Profession Now and in Future - Passing on Cultural Values
The Spring ETUCE Committee 2014 On 14-15 April 2014, the ETUCE Committee convened to debate on the major challenges and issues currently at stake in the education sector in Europe. Bringing the future priorities for teacher unions in Europe into focus, the Committee members decided that the ETUCE Special conference...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-04-08 Euro-demonstration: 50.0000 people demanded new directions for Europe
50.000 people from 21 European countries took to the streets of Brussels to participate in the large European trade union demonstration organised by ETUC on 4th April 2014 in Brussels. Trade unions from many different sectors and from all over Europe raised their voice against further austerity measures and for...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-04-08 The European Commission declares that public consultation is not a referendum
On 27 March 2014, the European Commission finally launched its public consultation on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The deadline for submission will be three months following the date when the consultation is available in all official EU languages.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2014-03-25 European teachers and students raise concerns with US-EU trade partnership
Negotiators from the European Union and the United States met in Brussels on 10-14 March to continue the controversial talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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Equity and inclusion 2014-03-11 One in three women experienced violence
33 % of women living in the European Union have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, and one in 20 women was raped since the age of 15. These insights were revealed by an EU-wide survey on violence against women published by the European Agency for...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-03-11 European elections 2014: Time has come to engage your candidates to pledge to Quality Education
In the framework of the IE/ETUCE initiative “Unite for Quality Education - Better Education for a Better World”, ETUCE has launched a new large-scale campaign initiative called “Candidates pledge to Quality Education”. This initiative aims to seek the support from candidates to the European Parliament elections who share ETUCE’s view...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-02-26 ETUCE urges to take action to restore the complete functioning of trade unions in Ukraine
During the fights and clashes between demonstrators and police forces the Trade Union House in Kiev was completely destroyed by a fire. Today several hundred trade union workers remain without workplaces and all documents, furniture, office equipment etc. have been lost.
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Union renewal and development 2014-02-25 Open Education Challenge
The initiative Open Education Challenge, launched in partnership with the European Commission, is an invitation to all innovators to submit projects, and receive technical support through the European Incubator for Innovation in Education, and access funding for their future companies.
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Union renewal and development 2014-02-25 Erasmus Mobility Grant Open for Application
The Erasmus Mobility Grant is open for application. The grant is part of the KA1 action under the Erasmus+ programme.
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Equity and inclusion 2014-02-25 International Women’s Day 2014
Celebrated annually on 8 March, International Women’s Day encourages advocacy for women's advancement and gender equality. With thousands of events worldwide, it calls for challenging the status quo for women's equality and for inspiring positive change.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-02-07 European elections 2014: a turning point for the European democracy built on quality education
A new initiative has been launched by the ETUCE to give candidates to European elections the opportunity to pledge to the ETUCE 10 key messages on “What is needed to improve the Quality of Education in Europe”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-01-27 Health& Safety - Project Results Published
The results of the latest ETUCE Health and Safety project Teacher trade unions in solidarity for healthy and safe workplaces in the economic crisis were disseminated last week. ETUCE member organisations will receive USB Flash Drives to disseminate the project results among their members and affiliates.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-01-27 Gender Equality Surveys Open to Participation
On 1 February 2014, ETUCE will start a survey that focuses particularly on gender equality in teacher unions and in the teaching profession.
Gender Equality Surveys Open to Participation