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Commenting on the European Commission’s announcement today of its priorities for dealing with the refugee crisis in 2016, Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, said
“Europe needs to show humanity, solidarity and responsibility to the refugees. They are risking their lives to escape war and poverty. The Commission seem more concerned not to criticize the member states, however badly they are behaving, instead of proposing effective solutions to an emergency which will grow during 2016.”
“There is no acknowledgement of the need to provide for the many more refugees who are waiting to come to Europe, and who will arrive sooner or later.”
“It is no use simply implementing a relocation plan that covers only 1 in 10 of every refugee without expanding it to the rest who are already here or who will arrive in the future.”
“The Commissioners’ response to member states that have closed their borders is that they will strengthen external frontiers and send back 'illegal migrants'. That is disappointingly weak from people who should be defending the Schengen system.”
ETUC - 13 January 2016
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Le procès d'Antoine Deltour et des deux autres accusés dans le cadre de l'affaire "LuxLeaks" se déroulera au Luxembourg du 26 avril au 4 mai 2016.
Accusé entre autres de "divulgation de secrets d’affaires", Antoine risque jusqu'à 5 ans de prison et plus d'1 million d'Euros d'amende.
Plus que jamais, Antoine a besoin de votre soutien : partagez et faites signer cette pétition, faites connaître le site de soutien https://support-antoine.org, faites un don pour financer sa défense : https://www.helloasso.com/associations/comite-de-soutien-a-antoine-deltour
Comité de soutien à Antoine Deltour - 13 janvier 2016
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En résumé, il nous explique que les politiques d’austérité appliquées dans tous les pays de l’Union pour faire face à la crise économique ces dernières années n’ont fait que creuser les inégalités déjà présentes. Selon Oxfam, il est donc plus que nécessaire d’opérer un virage radical pour parvenir à une meilleure redistribution des richesses grâce à plus de justice fiscale et sociale.
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De piek in het aantal uithuiszettingen is in de eerste plaats een symptoom van de Vlaamse wooncrisis, die al jaren woedt en steeds verder om zich heen grijpt. Het Netwerk tegen Armoede vraagt al langer dringende maatregelen om de crisis te bestrijden. Hopelijk schiet de Vlaamse regering nu echt in gang.
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Bevolkingsevolutie zonder migratie. Wat zou de bevolkingsontwikkeling geweest zijn in gemeenten, provincies, gewesten, België wanneer er geen buitenlandse migratie van vreemdelingen geweest was na 1970?
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OTTAWA — With the announcement that TransCanada is using NAFTA to sue the U.S. government for $15 billion over its decision to disallow the Keystone XL pipeline, the Council of Canadians says the proliferation of free trade agreements such as the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and CETA (Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) guarantees an avalanche of such challenges to environmental laws and democratic decisions.
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Poultry workers in the USA suffer extremely high rates of injury, earn poverty level wages, and work in a climate of fear, Oxfam America has claimed in a report disclosed in late October.
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On 25 November the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work. Many of the points covered by the resolution are of concern also to the European trade union movement, particularly in relation to the protection of workers against the health risks posed by chemical products.
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In a judgement of 16 December the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the European Commission had infringed the European Regulation on the placing on the market and use of biocidal products.
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Many arms companies use the Netherlands for tax evasion constructions, writes Stop Wapenhandel in a research report published today.
