'Future of the European Union and public services': December 2001

The overall aim of EPSU's conference on the 'Future of the European Union and Public Services' held in December 2001, was to: 

debate and develop a strategy for taking the EU Treaty forward so as to promote public services.

The programme covered the following:

European Commission Communication on Services of General Interest and Document on Public Service Obligations (Nice)

EU Competition Policy and Services of General Interest

EU Competition Policy and Services of General Interest: Selected Case Studies

'Positively Public' - Taking the EU Treaty Forward to Promote Public Services

Click here to view/download the full conference programme; biographies of speakers; list of participants

The conference coincided with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Euro-rally, held in Laeken on 13th December 2001 at the meeting of the Council of Ministers, under the Belgian Presidency which was demonstrating for a social Europe that:

• gurantees public services;
• safeguards social security systems;
• extends employee rights;
• improves health and safety at work;
• and combats poverty, exclusion and discrimination in all forms.