Paris, 27/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The mid-term conference of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) opened on Wednesday 27 May. It began with hope for change and an “ambitious working programme”, as underlined by ETUC Vice-President and Secretary General of the UGT (Spain), Candido Mendez. Bolstered by the success of the recent Euro-demonstrations, which saw a total of almost 350,000 people take to the streets of Brussels, Madrid, Berlin and Prague, the Spanish trade unionist...