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'Social Package 2008': The EC's Great 'Social Renewal' Swindle
 The European Commission's new 'social package', consisting of legislative proposals as well as a range of non-legislative communications, reports and recommendations, was unveiled in early July. The legislative proposals include a directive on cross-border health care, a proposal to revise the existing European Works Councils directive as well as a horizontal directive on anti-discrimination outside the workplace. According to GUE/NGL President Francis Wurtz, their "effect in terms of promoting measurable progress towards Social Europe is doubtful. On the legislative front, the main thrust of the Commission's policies continues to be a Europe in which market liberalisation, deregulation and flexible labour are being prioritised first and foremost". Click here to read reactions by GUE/NGL MEPs on this package.

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13/07/2008
Message from Francis WURTZ, President of the GUE - NGL Group, to Graham WATSON, President of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament
 Following the accidental death of Bronislaw Geremek
 
11/07/2008
Parliamentary Declaration "For the right to political opposition, work for peace and respect of the separation of powers in Colombia"
 
10/07/2008
Declaration by Francis Wurtz in response to President Sarkozy
 On the twofold nature of this French presidency
 
09/07/2008
GUE/NGL MEPs take fingerprinting action against Berlusconi's Roma ethnic profiling policy
 A delegation of GUE/NGL MEPs will be taking fingerprints outside the hemicycle today between 11.30 and noon.
 
09/07/2008
Better coordination needed, not a Bolkestein approach to social security
 By GUE/NGL members Papadimoulis and Triantaphyllides
 
09/07/2008
Déclaration de Francis Wurtz, Président du GUE/NGL, sur les Roms
 Sur l'éventuel retrait de l'ordre du jour de la plénière de la résolution commune (condamnant les pratiques discriminatoires du gouvernement italien à l'égard des Roms.
 
09/07/2008
Roma fingerprinting flouts EU anti-discrimination laws
 MEP Catania condemned this act as being in "flagrant contradiction of EU laws"
 
08/07/2008
Declaration by Francis Wurtz, GUE/NGL President, on the Corbett report
 On the composition of political groups in the European Parliament
 
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Events
 
09/07/2008
Hearing: Why a US Missile Shield in Europe
 
08/07/2008
Hearing: Calling for freedom and justice: Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails
 
04/07/2008
1001 CULTURAS : Culture and the Left
 
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Press conferences
 
15/07/2008
On the fight against corruption in Venezuela
 
09/07/2008
On the situation of Roma people in Italy
 
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GUE/NGL in the news
 
15/07/2008
Social security
 
15/07/2008
Novel Foods
 
11/07/2008
Roma people
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10/07/2008
French presidency
 
09/07/2008
Rapport Corbett
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TOWARDS A EUROPE OF MIXED IDENTITIES
 
The latest GUE/NGL publication on migration provides a comprehensive overview of existing and forthcoming legislation in the field as well as views by GUE/NGL MEPs and a number of experts and organisations working closely on these issues. Currently available in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish, the brochure will soon be available in Swedish and Greek.
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Public health
Through its activities, the GUE/NGL has contributed to improvements in the sphere of public health at EU level.
Migration
The Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left is opposed to any notion of creating a ‘Fortress Europe’ and supports the positive aspects of migration.
Climate Change
ccFor further information on the GUE/NGL group's activities and policies on climate change click here.
Women's rights
For the GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament, “women’s rights and equal opportunities” are a key issue in our activities.
Public services debate
GUE/NGL fought against the "services" directive, the revision of the "working time" directive and the Lisbon Strategy since the first of the Commission's proposals.
Middle East
The GUE/NGL Group is actively involved in initiatives that seek to find a definitive solution to the Middle East conflict
 

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