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SUMMARY JUNE 2019

EUROPEAN POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

1. EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: Negotiations underway in political groups in sight of

parliamentary committees distribution

2. EUROPEAN UNION: Institutional fuzz for main institutions’ executive positions

appointments

3. DENMARK: The Social-Democrats win the 5 June elections

4. ITALY: After EU elections, the Commission launches new exceeding deficit

procedure

5. BREXIT: Chaotic situation to name Theresa May’s successor after her resignation

SOCIAL EUROPE

6. EUROPEAN LABOUR AUTHORITY: Bratislava chosen to host new agency’s

headquarters

7. PRODOME: Internships and streamlined bureaucracy are the new proposals from

the Rome and Bologna meetings

8. FUTURE OF WORK: The Council adopts conclusions and draws guidelines for next

political term

9. WORK-LIFE BALANCE: The directive has been voted

10. WORKING CONDITIONS: A directive for more transparency and predictability has

been adopted

11. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION: Declaration for the Future of Work, legal

instruments against violence and harassment at work adopted

AGENDA EUROPE

APPOINTMENTS


EUROPEAN POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

1. EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: Negotiations underway in political groups in sight of

parliamentary committees distribution

In the aftermath of the elections of May 26, which saw the European People's Party (EPP) win

the majority of seats but also the ALDE Liberals significantly advance (+38 seats compared to

the previous Hemicycle) as well as the ENF Euroskeptics (+37 seats) and the Greens (+23

seats), the time is now to negotiations for the leadership groups of the European political

parties and assignments in the twenty permanent parliamentary committees.

First nominations: Spanish Iratxe Garcia will take the lead of Socialists & Democrats (S&D).

Nathalie Loiseau, the former Minister of European Affairs in the French government and head

of list for LREM presidential party, was at the centre of a heated debate following remarks she

made in the presence of French journalists on June 5 in Brussels, in which she would have

criticized not only her political opponents, but also her allies.

After ditching Jean Arthuis, Manfred Weber, Guy Verhofstadt or Sophia In't Veld, the

presidential candidate of the centrist group ALDE later denied her comments after they

leaked in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, and gave up seeking the presidency of the centrist

group ALDE, which she strongly coveted. It is finally the Romanian Dacian Ciolos who has

been elected on June 19 as president of the new centrist group Renew Europe, after

renaming the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the term "liberal" being

considered too pejorative in France. Renowned close to Michel Barnier and Emmanuel

Macron, he is particularly expected on the defence of a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

endowed with larger funds and expected to display more efficiency during the legislature.

Sylvie Brunet and Fredrick Federley have both been elected Vice-presidents of the group as

the decision to appoint two VPs at a time was taken upon request from Fredrick Federley in

order to better display the balance between several ideological streams among the group.

Social-Democrats have elected nine VPs, among which Eric Andrieu, French MEP since 2012,

but also Italian Roberto Gualtieri, German Bernd Lange or British Claude Moraes.

Nominal and final committee compositions will be established on the last day of the first

plenary session of this new legislature, on July 4, following the Conference of Presidents.

2. EUROPEAN UNION: Institutional fuzz for main institutions’ executive positions

appointments

The European elections are not only an opportunity to renew the 700 or so elected

representatives of citizens across the Union, but also to ensure the change of the main

institutions, namely the European Commission, its President, its High Representative to the

Foreign Policy and its Commissioners, the Presidency of the European Central Bank, and those

of the European Council and the European Parliament. It is indeed a precious opportunity for

Member States to leverage their influence and position their pawns on the political spectrum

to secure strategic positions for the next five years.

Highest ranking EU official, the position of President of the European Commission is currently

coveted by Manfred Weber, the Bavarian who led the EPP list and who according to the

principle of Spitzenkandidat applied in 2014, should have automatically been appointed,

after approval of the Heads of State and Government as well as the European Parliament.

But M. Weber did not gather unanimous support and has notably attracted the disapproval

of Emmanuel Macron, who deplores a lack of stature and political experience of the

German, although supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In retaliation, the latter

threatened to veto the nomination of Michel Barnier, French candidate, if France posed his

on the candidacy of Mr. Weber. Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, former competition

commissioner under the ALDE label, remains in the running in terms of the relative good


opinions she inspires from European players and voters.

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security Policy, a kind of European

Foreign Minister currently occupied by the Italian Federica Mogherini, could be resumed by

the Dutchman Frans Timmermans, the Slovak Miroslav Lajcak, or even Angela Merkel

according to some sources.

At the European Central Bank, few rumours circulate about the successor of Mario Draghi, in

post since 2011. An indispensable economic and financial expertise is expected for the post.

The President of the European Council, which heads the quarterly meetings of the 28 Heads

of State and Government of the Union, could be taken over by Lithuanian Dalia

Grybauskaite.

Finally, the President of the European Parliament will be elected by his peers at the first

plenary session scheduled for early July.

The EU summit of last June 29 and 30 has failed to settle an agreement between heads of

State or Government as per the upcoming European main institution leaders. Negotiations

are to be continued in the course of July.

3. DENMARK: The Social-Democrats win the 5 June elections

The centre-left alliance, which campaigned on immigration in particular, won the June 5

elections in Denmark, hence making of the Nordic country the third after Sweden and

Finland to elect a left-wing government in less than a year. Led by the Social Democrat Party

candidate Mette Frederiksen, the coalition garnered majority of the seats in Folketing, the

Danish Parliament. The centre-left alliance is credited with 96 seats against 79 for the liberal

party, Venstre, previously in power and led by Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, out of the

179 in the Assembly. The Danish People's Party, a nationalist formation, was harshly defeated,

losing more than half of its voters in the 2015 elections. The Greens are gaining ground.

Mette Frederiksen is now expected to become Prime Minister, after trying to reassure voters

increasingly anxious to revive the "Danish model" after years of austerity. She promised to

increase social spending and take measures to limit immigration.

Economic reforms since the early 2000s have aimed to encourage Danes to work longer,

while unemployment benefits were reduced. Danish growth has remained above the

European average and public finances have stabilized. The measures taken to reduce the

public deficit have had an impact on the standard of living of the population, which is

increasingly denouncing austerity.

Mette Frederiksen approved the toughening of refugee and immigrant legislation decided

by the Rasmussen government, which needed the support of DF, the far-right party.

Next steps

July 2-4

First plenary session of Parliament

Conference of Group Presidents in Parliament, negotiations for the

composition of political groups

Appointment of the President of Parliament

October 21-24

Validation of the College of Commissioners presented by Member States to

parliamentary committees

November 1st

Entry into office of the new European Commission


4. ITALY: After EU elections, the Commission launches new exceeding deficit

procedure

On 5 June, the European Commission announced the possibility, after the abandonment of

the procedures launched in December 2018, to initiate new measures against Italy as per its

"excessive deficit". Instead of being contained, the Italian public debt had again swelled in

2018, reaching 132.2% of national GDP instead of falling back to the 60% required by the

European Stability and Growth Pact (ESGP) and the Maastricht criteria. The strong tensions

between Jean-Claude Juncker's team and Matteo Salvini's government in December finally

came to an end so as not to taint the beginning of the election campaign in view of the

European elections of May 2019. In the immediate aftermath of the election, the Brussels

Commission didn’t take long to reopen the chapter.

The populist coalition in power, under the aegis of Matteo Salvini, reacted strongly to the

announcement of the reopening of the budget sanction procedure. The latter will only be

effective after a complex process requiring the approval of the other Member States. But it

can eventually lead to penalties of up to 0.2% of Italy's GDP, making up about 3.5 billion

euros.

EU Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici also deplored a steadily rising debt expected to

continue to grow (up to 134% in 2019), as well as a growing structural deficit in the Italian

economy. Finance Minister Giovanni Tria has acknowledged in a letter sent to the European

Commission the need to reduce the budget deficit in order to lower the debt-to-GDP ratio.

In addition, he assured Brussels that the 2019 deficit would be subject to "natural self-

correction". Thus, according to Council President Giuseppe Conte, it will fall below 2.4% of

GDP, because of better tax revenues and the lower-than-expected cost of the two flagship

measures of the current majority easing of pension reform and "citizenship income".

The case of the Italian deficit will be examined at the Council of Finance Ministers mid-July.

5. BREXIT: Chaotic situation to name Theresa May’s successor after her resignation

After struggling for months to prevent the UK from leaving the EU without an agreement,

Theresa May eventually resigned just before the Brexit Party's overwhelming victory in the

European elections.

The name of his successor at the head of the Conservative Party, which will take over as the

prime minister of the United Kingdom, will be proclaimed on July 23, the party said in a

statement.

The vote, open to 160,000 party members, will be closed on July 22 and the announcement

of the future head of government made the next day, said the Tories. The two candidates in

the running are the former foreign minister and former London mayor Boris Johnson, a

favorite, and the current head of the British diplomacy Jeremy Hunt. From June 22 to July 17,

the two finalists will debate sixteen times before the members of the party of Birmingham in

London, while passing by Manchester and Norwich. In the face of conservative members

obsessed with Brexit, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson could radicalize their speech or, on the

contrary, remain measured, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Philip

Hammond claims.

At a conference in the financial world on the evening of June 20, Hammond promised to

fight for a "pragmatic" Brexit vision. He then assured "not to be able to imagine a conservative

government voluntarily seeking an exit from the EU without agreement with the Twenty-

Seven, endangering the union of the country and our economic prosperity". These call

remains very little heard by members of the Conservative Party, now determined to finally

complete the Brexit regardless of the price to pay.

At the end of the European Council of 27 Heads of State or Government of the European

Union held on 20 and 21 June in Brussels, President Donald Tusk once again separation

between the United Kingdom and the Union would be "still not renegotiable".


The best scenario to hope for today is that the successor of Theresa May, Johnson or Hunt,

succeed in reaching consensus and gather a very large majority behind him when the

agreement will be submitted to the vote of the British parliamentarians. This implies making

agreements with Labor and the various political parties still reluctant to vote in favor of the

exit agreement: DUP North-Irish, Scottish or Welsh independence. If the new Prime Minister

succeeds in this masterstroke, the agreement can finally be ratified by the European

Parliament and thus confirm the true exit of Great Britain, more than six months behind the

originally scheduled date of the 29th March 2019 and more than two years of bitter

negotiations and infighting for a completely unprecedented procedure in the history of the

European Union.

Nevertheless, it seems pragmatic and rational to say that such a scenario seems very unlikely

in view of the great dissensions that exist between the British political parties on the subject of

Brexit. Today scheduled for October 31, 2019, a new extension of Brexit no longer appears

impossible.

SOCIAL EUROPE

6. EUROPEAN LABOUR AUTHORITY: Bratislava chosen to host new agency’s

headquarters

On June 19, just ahead of the meeting of the Council on Employment, Social Policy, Health

and Consumers in which Ministers were to formally adopt the Regulation establishing the

European Labour Authority, Member States decided that Bratislava will host the seat of the

European Labour Authority. Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour

Mobility, Marianne Thyssen, welcomed the decision.

President Juncker first announced the idea of a European Labour Authority in his State of the

Union address in September 2017. The Commission presented its proposal for establishing a

Labour Authority in March 2018, and in February 2019, the European Parliament and the

Council reached a provisional agreement. After the European Parliament, today also the

Council formally adopted the Regulation establishing the European Labour Authority, which

will enter into force in the coming days after its signature and publication. This new Authority

will ensure that Union rules on labour mobility are enforced in a fair, simple and effective way.

Following the final adoption of the founding Regulation, it will be up and running in 2019 and

will operate at full capacity by 2024. On 16 October 2019, the selection of the Management

Board and the work programme of the European Labour Authority will be presented.

The selection of the seat of the Authority was made by common agreement of the

representatives of the governments of the Member States, following a procedure and criteria

endorsed by Member States themselves. Under this procedure, the interested Member States

were required to submit an offer to host the Authority by 6 May 2019, indicating in detail how

Flexible exit dat

TIMELINE

29 March

2019

26 May

2019

31 October

2019

Initial exit

date

European

elections

Flexible exit date

according to progress of

negotiations

New Brexit

deadline


the criteria are addressed and specifying the offered conditions.

The Authority will start its business in October.

7. PRODOME: Internships and Streamlined Bureaucracy are the New Proposals from

the Rome and Bologna Meetings

Streamlined bureaucracy can fight against irregular domestic work and vocational

certifications through quality training courses including internships in private homes. These

were the objects of the discussions held during the national workshops organized by

Assindatcolf last spring (11 April in Rome and 16 April in Bologna) as part of the Prodome

Project.

Based on current data, in Italy 6 out of 10 domestic workers do not have a regular contract.

It was therefore decided to focus on standardizing procedures in order to help families

manage the employment relationship: the proposal made in Rome was to harmonize the

nomenclature pertaining to the tasks and duties foreseen by the INPS hiring system (which

does not currently provide a specific definition for baby sitters) with those described in the

collective agreement.

Always on the front of definitions, stakeholders have decided to forego the term “badante”

(carer in Italian) because of its socially negative connotations and to adopt a single,

nationally recognized professional profile, where qualification is obtained though training

courses, adapted to the duties to be performed.

This aspect was discussed at the Bologna meeting in particular, where the most innovating

proposals concerned were aimed at an internship experience. In fact, for the first time, it was

put forward to organize practical internships in private homes. This proposal has already

been experimented in the capital of Emilia Romagna where 120 hours of internship (out of a

total of 300 training hours) took place in private homes.

Prodome will be at the heart of the next Congress of the Italian society of geriatrics and

gerontology that will take place in Rome from 27th to 30th November.

8. FUTURE OF WORK: The Council adopts conclusions and draws guidelines for next

political term

The Council adopted on June 13 conclusions on the changing world of work and the

emergence of new forms of work. The conclusions focus on occupational health and safety

in relation to digitalization, robotisation, use of artificial intelligence and the development of

the digital platform economy.

The conclusions also recognise that the emerging new forms of work contribute to social

inclusion, but also present serious challenges for traditional employment arrangements, as

well as for ensuring adequate levels of workers' protection.

See here the Council’s conclusions

9. WORK-LIFE BALANCE: The directive has been voted

The Council adopted on June 13 a Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers –

aiming to increase the participation of women to the labor market and the take-up of family-

related leave and flexible working arrangements. The new act also provides opportunities for

workers to be granted leave to care for relatives who need support. The legislation means

that parents and carers will be better able to reconcile their professional and private lives,

and companies will benefit from more motivated workers.

This directive is a further step towards promoting equality between women and men across

the EU. Currently, men have only limited incentives to take parental or paternity leave or

assume caring responsibilities. The directive provides them with new opportunities to do so.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9686-2019-INIT/en/pdf


This will reduce the amount of unpaid work undertaken by women and allow them more time

for paid employment. It will also contribute to closing the gender gap.

Paternity leave - fathers or second parents will be able to take at least 10 working

days of leave around the time of birth of a child paid at a level equal to that currently

set at EU level for maternity leave (in line with article 11 of Council Directive

92/85/EEC). The right to paternity leave will not be subject to a prior service

requirement. However, the payment of paternity leave can be subject to a six-month

prior service requirement. Member states with more generous parental leave systems

will be able to keep their current national arrangements

Parental leave - an individual right to 4 months of parental leave, from which 2 months

are non-transferable between the parents and are paid. The level of payment and

the age limit of the child will be set by member states

Carers' leave - a new concept at EU level for workers caring for relatives in need of

care or support due to serious medical reasons. Carers will be able to take 5 working

days per year. Member states may use a different reference period, allocate leave on

a case-by-case basis, and may introduce additional conditions for the exercise of this

right

Flexible working arrangements - the right for parents to request these arrangements

has been extended to include working carers.

The Commission presented its proposal in April 2017. On 21 June 2018, the Council adopted its

position which formed the basis for the negotiations with the European Parliament. The

presidency of the Council and the Parliament reached an agreement on 24 January 2019,

followed by a vote by the EP on 4 April 2019. After today's adoption by the Council, the text

of the directive will be published in the Official Journal of the EU. It will enter into force on the

twentieth day following the publication. Member States will then have three years to adopt

laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with the directive.

Find the entire directive here.

10. WORKING CONDITIONS: A directive for more transparency and predictability has

been adopted

The Council adopted on June 13 a directive which will make working conditions across the EU

more transparent and predictable. The new law introduces new minimum rights, as well as

new rules on the information to be provided to workers about their working conditions. Its

main aim is to respond to labor market challenges triggered by demographic developments,

digitalization and new forms of employment.

This directive responds to the emergence of new forms of work. It introduces minimum rights

for workers, and so provides increased security and predictability in the relationships between

workers and employers, while preserving labor market adaptability.

The directive applies to all individuals working more than 3 hours per week over four weeks

(i.e. over 12 hours per month). Certain groups of workers may be excluded from some of the

provisions, e.g. civil servants, armed forces, emergency services or law enforcement services.

The directive requires employers to inform workers, as from their first working day and no later

than the seventh calendar day, of the essential aspects of the employment relationship, such

as:

the identities of the parties to the relationship and the place and the nature of work

the initial basic amount of remuneration and the amount of paid leave

the duration of the standard working day or week when the work pattern is

predictable

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-20-2019-INIT/en/pdf


the identity of the social security institution receiving social security contributions,

where this is the responsibility of the employer

When the work pattern is entirely or largely unpredictable, employers will also have to inform

workers of the reference hours and days within which they may be required to work, the

minimum period of advance notice the workers shall receive before the start of work, and the

number of guaranteed paid hours.

The directive sets a number of further minimum rights for workers, including the rights:

to take up a job in parallel with another employer

to limit the probationary period to a maximum of 6 months, with longer periods

allowed only in case where this is in the interest of the worker or is justified by the

nature of the work

to request, after at least six months service with the same employer, employment with

more predictable and secure working conditions

to receive training cost-free, when such training is required by Union or national

legislation.

Member states are free to adopt or apply legislation which is more favourable to workers.

The Commission presented its proposal in December 2017. In June 2018 the Council adopted

its position which formed the basis for the negotiations with the European Parliament. The

provisional agreement between the presidency of the Council and the Parliament was

reached on 7 February 2019. The European Parliament voted in favour of the agreement on

16 April 2019. Following today's adoption by the Council, the text of the directive will be

published in the Official Journal of the EU. The directive will enter into force on the twentieth

day following the publication. Member states will then have 3 years to take the necessary

legislative measures to comply with the directive.

Find the directive here.

11. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION: Declaration for the Future of Work, legal

instruments against violence and harassment at work adopted

After a two-week conference that gathered an estimated 6,000 delegates representing

governments, employers, and workers in Geneva, the ILO Centenary Declaration for the

Future of Work and the Convention and Recommendation on Violence and Harassment in

the World of Work were adopted at the conference.

Director-General Joost Korte, from the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs

and Inclusion, gave a plenary speech at the Conference and was interviewed by the ILO at

the Conference's Daily Show. Joost Korte highlighted the links between action at the

international and European levels on the future of work. Information was also provided on EU-

funded projects in Asia to fight forced labour of migrant domestic women workers and in the

fishing sector, as well as to promote decent work in global supply chains.

The Declaration sets orientations for a human-centred approach to the future of work with

international initiatives and cooperation to:

a just transition to an environmentally sustainable future of work

promote skills and support transitions throughout working lives

implement a transformative agenda to achieve gender equality at work

treat safe and healthy working conditions as a fundamental principle and right at

work

provide universal access to social protection, adequate minimum wage and other

labour protection to all workers

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-43-2019-INIT/en/pdf


The Declaration also supports the contribution of social dialogue to the building of social

justice, the role of trade and industrial policies in promoting decent work as well as ILO's

important role in promoting policy coherence in pursuit of its human-centred approach to

the future of work. The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

welcomes these developments at the international level, which it considers

complementary with EU policies and the European Pillar of Social Rights.

The Convention and Recommendation on Violence and Harassment in the World of

Work adopted on 21 June provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for protecting

victims of violence and harassment in the world of work through an inclusive, integrated and

gender-responsive approach. The new Convention and Recommendation recognize the

importance of a work culture based on mutual respect and human dignity in preventing

violence and harassment, and set out an effective and complementary set of remedies and

support services for addressing this behaviour.

These ambitious legal instruments are fully aligned with the key principles of non-

discrimination and gender equality of the EU. Throughout the negotiation process, the EU and

its Member States stressed the need for a binding international agreement providing

adequate protection and remedies in cases of violence and harassment in the world of work.

EU and its Member States were major players in the negotiations and were instrumental in

finding common ground in a number of issues.

The reference in the Recommendation to applicable international labour standards and

international instruments on human rights ensure that vulnerable groups and groups in

situations of vulnerability will be protected inclusively and that no one is left behind.

The EU and its Member states have been key contributors to the ILO supervision of the

application of ILO norms in the field of social protection floors across 17 individual countries,

and support the respect of core labour standards.

You can find the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work under this link.

Convention and Recommendation on Violence and Harassment in the World of

Work adopted on 21 June

https://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/108/reports/provisional-records/WCMS_711288/lang--en/index.htm

https://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/108/committees/violence-harassment/lang--en/index.htm

https://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/108/committees/violence-harassment/lang--en/index.htm


EU AGENDA

JUNE 2019 JULY 2019 AUGUST 2019

COUNCIL

13 – EPSCO Council in Brussels

20 & 21 – European Council

COMMISSION

20 & 21 – Official proposal of 27 EU

Commissioners by Member States

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

2 to 4 – Plenary session in Strasbourg

2 – Election of the President of the

Parliament

8 & 9 - Nominations in committees


24 & 25 – EMPL Committee meeting

COMMISSION

1 – Confirmation of Commissioners by

the European Parliament

HOLIDAY

SEPTEMBER 2019 OCTOBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

2 – Parliamentary work resuming

2, 3, 12, 23 & 24 – EMPL Committee

meeting


EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

2, 3, 7, 8 & 14 – EMPL Committee

meeting

EFFE

9 – PRODOME board of directors and

consortium meetings in Paris

10 – PRODOME final conference at ENA

direction, Paris

11 – Second half of PRODOME

Consortium meeting


APPOINTMENTS

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

European Commission

Sabine Weyand, deputy chief negotiator for Brexit, has been appointed Director-General for

Trade at the European Commission, from 1 June. It will be at the forefront of negotiating trade

agreements with third countries, of which the United Kingdom will be a part after leaving the

European Union.

Denmark's Ditte Juul-Jørgensen, who is currently head of Margrethe Vestager's office, will

head the Directorate-General for Energy on 1 August.

The Belgian Pascal Leardini is appointed Deputy Secretary General and Executive Director of

the European Commission, a position he held on an interim basis since 16 March.

As for the Brexit preparation group, led by Mr. Leardini, he is now under the direction of

Dorthe Christensen.

Council of the European Union

Finland took over the semester presidency of the Council of the EU from July 1st until

December 31st 2019 after Romania. Marja Rislakki, permanente representative of Finland to

the EU since Sept. 1st 2017, will therefore take on the task of coordinating the Council’s work

for six months under Finnish rule.

FRANCE

The French ambassador to Belgium, Claude-France Arnould, is appointed as diplomatic

adviser to the government from 22 July.

Delphine O becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations World Conference on Women

as of 1 June 2019.


About EFFE

Created in 2012, the European Federation for Family Employment (EFFE) chaired by Marie

Béatrice Levaux is based on the principles of: free choice of lifestyle and support of citizens in

their homes; respect for the private home; social and citizen responsibility.

The EFFE (www.effe-homecare.eu) promotes and defends home-based employment within

the European institutions: it is committed to bringing a model of social innovation to the

service of European citizens through the services and jobs of the family at home, relaying the

EU 2020 strategy for a "sustainable social market economy". Social inclusion is the keyword

and remains at the heart of the sector as a source of economic growth through the creation

of mass jobs and the fight against undeclared work.

Marie Béatrice Levaux (FEPEM) - President; Andrea Zini (ASSINDATCOLF) - Vice President;

Karmele Acedo (Grupo SSI) - Secretary General; Anita Poutard (IPERIA-The Institute) -

Treasurer.

CONTACT :

Grégoire Vivet, Policy Officer – +33 6 26 11 63 42

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