On Monday 22 March, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) published a list of recommendations to improve workers’ conditions that it sent that day to the European Commission so that the latter takes these Country Specific Recommendations into account as part of the European Semester budget process (see other article).
The ETUC has expressed three main goals. Firstly, that the Commission encourages wage increases as a means to stimulate economic recovery. This will help to protect and...