12/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent on Wednesday by the Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation, Emilio Gabaglio, to the Presidents of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, and the European Commission, Romano Prodi, and to the Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, he said that even if the EU has broken off economic and trading relations with Burma and is acing for the restoration of civil, political and trade union freedoms, 322 multinationals and a number of European countries continue to invest there, deliver equipment and carry out work, thereby benefiting from force Burmese labour. Emilio Gabaglio calls on the institutions to send out a strong signal to European companies that are still working in Burma, some of which are "active in the area of the social responsibility of companies" which the European Commission supports.