The Pillar sets out 20 key principles and rights essential for fair and well-functioning labour markets and social protection systems, structured around three chapters: equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion.

Yesterday a stakeholder group led by Transparency International EU and including CESI sent an open letter to the Heads of State and Government participating in the European Council summit later this week, calling for more transparency and democratic accountability in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)

After its ambitious November 2017 Communication on 'Strengthening European identity through education and culture', the European Commission released a so-called 'Education Package', of which a first part was published in early 2018 and a second set of initiatives was presented earlier this week on 22 May. In the framework of the European Commission’s vision to create a European Education Area by 2025, first set out in the November 2017 Communication, CESI conducted an interview on this topic with two young teachers, representing two of its member organisations active in the education sector, namely Grégory Corps from France and Katarzyna Pawlaczyk from Poland. Grégory and Katarzyna are both teachers and both members, since November 30 2017, of the Board of the CESI Youth.

On March 22, precisely two years after the Brussels terror attacks, CESI’s Trade Councils ‘Justice’ & ‘Security’ met in Brussels to discuss a number of key sector-specific issues: privatisation and digitisation in the prison and justice systems, the fight against radicalisation, police cooperation and fight against organised crime, the Schengen Borders Code and its revision in light of the 2015-2016 terrorist attacks, smart borders, and violence at work.