08/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - MEPs Pia Locatelli, Antonio Panzeri and Gianni Pittella (PES) have written to President Prodi, urging him to support the request by craft unions to be allowed to join the European social dialogue. The MEPs say that the Commission should launch a review of the participation criteria for the social dialogue in order to enable craft representatives to join. Social dialogue is important to the Lisbon Strategy since it helps remove rigidity in the labour market, which...