Representatives of national trade unions elected Laurent Berger of France as President, on Friday 24 May, at the end of the 14th Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in Vienna.
Laurent Berger, currently Secretary General of the Confédération française démocratique du travail (CFDT), was elected for a four-year term with 95.9% of the votes cast. He succeeds the Belgian Rudy De Leeuw, President of the Belgian General Federation of Labour (FGTB).
Two Frenchmen thus...