"The day that we no longer celebrate Women's Day, we will have achieved perfect equality."
Ex-Commissioner Viviane Reding once remarked.
We are still far from that day !
In a more nuanced way, Simone de Beauvoir advised:
"Never forget that it only needs a political, economic or religious crisis to cast doubt on women's rights. These will never be acquired rights. You will have to stay vigilant your whole life."
Open letter to Mr Juncker, President of the European Commission
Subject: Need to ensure the effective rebuttal of defamatory attacks on the institutions and their staff by anti-European lobbyists and media
Mr President,
The judgment of 14 February 2017 concerns a case that the Federation defended before the highest jurisdiction of the European legal order. It condemns the Commission for the Investigatory and Disciplinary Office's excesses.
The FEDERATION seeks via this information note to ensure the long term viability of our sickness insurance scheme (JSIS) and to enable you to take informed decisions.
We are very attached to our sickness insurance scheme, the JSIS, and wish to see it work well and in a sustainable manner for the benefit of all colleagues.
The key points that motivate us are:
Europe is anything but a simple journey. Four days after the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, Ms MAY, the UK Prime Minister, triggers Article 50 and the United Kingdom formally requested negotiations with the European Union, regarding the exit of a Union it joined in 1973.
We would like to thank all the colleagues that came and participated to the conference-debate this 15 of March 2017 with our speaker Pierre Defraigne.
This later as also published an opinion in a newspaper that will allow you to dive a little more in the reflection on Europe : http://www.lalibre.be/debats/opinions/en-appeler-au-citoyen-europeen-opi...