o Veronica Nilsson, Confederal Secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation

From 1976 to 1980, Henri Grethen served as economic adviser to the Confédération luxembourgeoise du commerce, a professional organisation in which he subsequently served as Secretary-General from 1980 to 1989.

J. whereas the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, John Monks, recently stated in a letter to Commissioner Olli Rehn that ‘the proposals on economic governance are likely to generalise these pressures in the euro-zone and beyond, and not just apply to countries in difficulties on the world’s bond markets’, and that ‘the ETUC will find it impossible to support action by the EU along these lines, or proposals on economic governance, and any new treaty which contains them, which resemble in some aspects the reparation (punishment) provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, and reduce member states to quasi colonial sta ...[+++]tus’,

Last Thursday, my group brought together in Brussels, to discuss the future of Mr Bolkestein’s symbolic text, more than 200 social actors from throughout the Union, from the confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation to the representatives of the social forum from Poland and Romania, in addition to a large number of local, regional and national elected representatives.

Secretary-General of the Luxembourg Confederation of Commerce 1980-1989

Following authorisation by the Council on 13 September 2004, the Presidency, assisted by the Secretary-General/High Representative, negotiated an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Government of the Swiss Confederation on the participation of the Swiss Confederation in Operation EUFOR RD Congo.