During its annual meeting in Brussels today, CESI's Trade Council 'Central Administration and Finances' - the members' sectoral forum to discuss European political subjects with implications for central administration workers - discussed on consequences of intra-EU mobility on social security systems and public services, impacts of digitalisation on employment relationships and trade unionism in public administrations, and influences of continued cuts in public budgets on the functioning of and work in public administrations.

Today, CESI's Trade council 'Health services' - the members’ forum to discuss EU level health service policies - convened for its annual meeting in Brussels. Next to discussions on a variety of topics related to the needs of employees in the healthcare sector, two new transnational collaboration agreements on fair labour mobility were signed between three of CESI's member organisations: The German dbb, the Dutch CNV-Connectief and the Spanish SAE trade union organisations.

Today, European Commissioner Jonathan Hill (picture) presented the Commission's long awaited proposal on corporate tax transparency, suggesting public reporting obligations for certain companies in the EU.