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| Date and link | Contents |
|---|---|
| October 2009 | – Acting in Unity: unitary platform and agreement with the USHU – Is the Lisbon Treaty soluble in the crisis? – Exceptional taxation of Greek colleagues – Double shifts in the European Schools – Statutes to defend you better – U4U: a structure to defend you better |
| November 2009 | – New Commission: Initial findings and questions – Recruitment and selection – Creation of the EEAS: Issues and proposals for debate |
| January 2010 | – REC: What to do? – Special report on remuneration – Health insurance – European evening on 6 February – Help Haiti: Europe-Third World |
| January 2011 | – Editorial – 55+ a question of culture – The European civil service has already made the effort to adapt – The dangers of non-Community nationalist approaches – Training for AD competitions – 2011 budget for the European Schools – Thresholds promotion – U4U adapts its statutes and strengthens its team – U4U at your service |
| January 2012 | – Remuneration: U4U calls on VP ŠEFČOVIČ – The line to follow according to the VP – European Schools: bankruptcy? – Death certificate for the method – The Council attacks the Commission – The Council drags out the adjustment of the pension contribution – Opinion: the F word – U4U communication – Readers’ letters – Support U4U – U4U at your service |
| October 2012 Edito | – Editorial: Council of Ministers: enough is enough! – Reform of the Staff Regulations 2013: latest news – The next enlargement to include Croatia – Multi-annual financial framework (MFF – budget 2014-20) -A speech for nothing? – Session auxiliaries demand justice – Mobility: what to do and how? – U4U strengthens its democratic principles – EPSO competition – Luxembourg: public meeting on the Staff Regulations – Brussels CLP: a necessary reflection – Support U4U! – U4U at your service |
| November 2012 (1) | – Special Reform: Fighting the planned destruction of the European civil service – Editorial: Time to mobilise – Reform of the Staff Regulations and the EU budget – Reform update: EU ministers to discuss €50 billion budget cut – Update on 2012 pay adjustments – Update on the 2011 pay adjustment – Appeal on the setting of the 2011 pension contribution – The consequences of the expiry of the Method if the Staff Regulations are not revised by the end of December 2012 – U4U support! – U4U at your service |
| December 2012 | – Special budget debate – Editorial – National egotism – Ambiguous objectives – Partial assessment of the 21 November day of action – A budget debate without vision – Budgetary savings in the proposal to revise the Commission’s statute – The Cypriot Presidency’s proposal of 29 October 2012 – The second proposal by the President of the European Council, 22 November 2012 – What follow-up to the discussion on the multiannual financial framework? – Statements to the European Parliament, as part of the debate on the multiannual financial framework – Readers have their say – Support U4U! – U4U at your service |
| February 2013 Special MFF | – Editorial – Meeting with VP Sefcovic – U4U supports the EP’s position – The EP has its own vision of tomorrow’s Europe! The Commission? – European Council: an anti-youth summit! – End of the special levy: unfounded rumours – EUROCONTROL extends the Method and the special levy in 2013 – U4U internal training cycle: U 4 eUrope – EPSO competition – Decentralised meetings – Citizens’ initiative: Demand quality European education for all – Language arrangements for EPSO competitions – Evaluation and promotion exercises – Report of the Health Insurance Management Committee (CGAM) for 2011 – 2013, Year of the Snake… and of the Citizen! – Humour: Big depression… – U4U support! – U4U at your service |
| March 2013 | – Editorial – Methods and obstacles to salary adjustments: where do we stand? – Internal competitions: a step forward that must be continued – The CAs too! – Where are we with statutory staff representation? – Trade union training; U4eUrope! – Training for EPSO competitions – European initiative: let’s demand European education for all. – No to a European austerity budget – Factsheet: Has the dismantling of Europe begun? – Readers’ letters – U4U support! – U4U at your service |
| April 2013 | – Editorial: Reject any weakening of the European civil service – Agencies: between necessity and marketing? – CoRePer’s mandate to the Staff Regulations Group, on the subject of reform – Internal Competitions: Redressing the injustices suffered by post-2004 colleagues – Discussions within the Staff Regulations Group: what are we discussing? – Staff of the Institutions to their Presidents: take action for the future of the Union! – Petition for internal competitions: reducing disparities – Resolution of the Gathering of officials and contract staff on Tuesday 23 April – U4U training courses – Decentralised meetings – Unity yes, but with clarity! – Will the European Union survive in 2024? – Support U4U! – U4U at your service |
| September 2013 | – Editorial: Restoring quality social dialogue – Better late than never – Luxembourg – The Commission and social dialogue – “do as I say, not as I do” – The inevitable court case – Commission decision to suspend tests for recruiting certain contract staff – Award of the contract for the Commission’s canteens and cafeterias – Humour: e-mails – Adjustment of remuneration – Meeting at the EACI – Participation of U4U in various committees – Readers’ letters – U4U support! – U4U at your service |
| October 2013 | – Editorial: Let’s work together at last! – Training for EPSO competitions – 2011 pay adjustments – A difficult year ahead for AGRI – Local agents – EU fails to regulate banking – U4U seeks a colleague for its management team – Luxembourg: Vote The Change! – Human Resources Report 2013: Commission in figures – The Court of Justice invalidates a selection procedure using the Talent screener – Benchmarking – Mood: How good it is to live in our countries! – Letters to the Editor |
| December 2013 | – Editorial: 4 years of wage freezes, refusal to engage in social dialogue and implementation of bad staff policies – enough is enough! – Update on the Court of Justice ruling in the pay case – Contribution to the EU staff pension scheme: an increasingly complicated situation – Adjustment of weightings for 2013: where do we stand? – Application of the 40-hour week to crèche staff: what can be done? – Staff committee elections in Luxembourg: the results – For a participative management of human resources – Petition from Contract Agents – Appeal to staff – U4U is getting stronger! – U4U at your service |
| January 2014 | – Editorial: Cynicism and trivialisation at the Commission – Pensions and remuneration: where do we stand? – First lessons from the reorganisation of DG RTD – Action before the Court of Justice for lack of social dialogue – 55+: moving forward! – JSIS – Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme: Our fund is everyone’s business…. – AC: Working together, let’s take control of our professional destiny! – Inter-institutional crèches: ensuring that needs are met through unity between professionals and users! – The SFIE joins U4U and USHU within the Regroupement syndical ! – Join U4U |
| February 2014 | – Editorial: an opportunity not to be missed! – At last, real negotiations for staff and the institution – Reduce disparities and insecurity – We are the unions – Creation of a secondary school – Transfer of pension rights – Pay adjustments – Appeals against unfair provisions in the new Staff Regulations – An interesting Court of Justice ruling – Conference debate on the issues at stake in the European elections – Fact sheet – U4U at your service |
| July 2014 | – Editorial: Social dialogue and staff representation: taking the initiative for change! – To members and staff – Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme: what to do? – Staff Regulations Committee: restarting the activities of this essential committee – European Schools by country: did you know? – Mediation service report for 2013 – A New Deal for Europe: citizens’ initiative – Legislative cooperation between the Parliament and the EESC/CDR – Crèches and nurseries in Brussels |
| October 2014 | – Editorial: social dialogue at the Commission – President Barroso: One message hides another? – Continuity or change? – The Juncker plan is good, the IC New Deal 4 Europe is better! – Exchanges of civil servants: what if we moved up a gear? – European schools – End of careers: obstacles and possible developments – U4U training initiatives – Call for your support – U4U at your service |
| January 2015 | – Editorial: Taking action! – DG RTD: What does a political DG mean? – Towards the demise of the Civil Service Tribunal? – The mobility of CAs in delegations: a major step forward U4U at DG AGRI – Alicante staff appeal to regulatory agency staff: let’s take charge of our professional destiny – Everything is in everything – Hope for Europe – Jean Monnet, the inspiration” by Jacques-René Rabier – U4U consults staff |
| April 2015 | – Editorial: elections to the Brussels Staff Committee – Working time – Review of 2014 for Senior Experts – Promotion system and 2015 promotion exercise: What’s going on? – Contract agents: where are the concrete measures? – EPSO: 12 years and counting – Training for EPSO competitions – Breaking Down Barriers: Towards Gender Equality at Work – Vehicle registrations in Belgium – Letters to the editor |
| 15 September 2015 | – Editorial: Where do we stand? – A new start for ‘New Deal for Europe – Talent Management – ASTs at an impasse? 8 U4U proposals to revitalise the careers of AST colleagues – Contract Renewal at the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators – Flash Poll addressed to Commission Staff in Luxembourg, due to the JMO evacuation – Opinion column: “We don’t believe in collective action”? – U4U at your service |
| 23 october 2015 | – Editorial: supporting U4U – The CST validates the Commission’s promotion system – Volkswagen affair: what responsibilities at European level? – Appeal from U4U/RS to the Members of the European Council – Promotion rates – Annual evaluation: objectives must be set – U4U supports the Collectif des contractuels appeal – Opinion column: “Unions are useless! – U4U at your service |
| 30 november 2015 | – Editorial: showing solidarity with the ACs – Doing better with the same – In or Out ? Or Wait and See? – Walk the talk: a talented Commission for a talented Europe – Middle management: the Commission’s plans – Personnel: je t’aime, moi non plus…. – Mediation service report for 2014: interesting recommendations – Prevention: a necessary action for staff! – Open forums: Contract agents, a generation of lost talent – Canteens: the wrong ideas – The question of number plates – U4U at your service |
| 9 march 2016 | – Editorial: where is the mid-term review of the EU budget? – To Brexit or not to Brexit? UNITED WE STAND – Doing better with the same? Chiche”. – Middle management: forced mobility and new appointment rules – Tit for tat at DG BUDG: Further cuts of 550 additional posts at the Commission in 2016 – RCAM: The deficit was not structural – Opinion column: A not-so-special identity card – Argenteuil accredited European school – U4U at your service |
| 23 may 2016 | – Editorial: Framing change through social dialogue – Doing more with the same resources ? 21 proposals from U4U – Questionnaire on the social situation in the agencies -Canteens at the Commission – A Commission service, a piece of cultural heritage – European schools: what happens in the event of Brexit? – DG NEAR: high political visibility but real administrative difficulties in the face of change – Restructuring at DG Agri: we are all affected – Social dialogue “modernising the HR function – Letters to the editor – U4U at your service |
| 28 september 2016 | – Editorial: Cultivating the European spirit – Kroes affair: Hiding the problem under the carpet won’t solve it -Mid-term budget review: an inadequate proposal – U4U at the EP – Mission guide: the state of negotiations – Document: Brexit and British pensioners in Belgium – DG DEVCO: staff are worried – Accident insurance – Letters to the editor |
| 24 october 2016 | – Crèches / childcare centres, putting an end to the shortage: it’s possible! – Contract agents at the EEAS – BREXIT: between rumours and facts – Elections 2016 to the EP Staff Committee – The petition on ethics has been delivered to the institutions – Opinion column: Combating waste is everyone’s business |
| 23 november 2016 | – Open space at NEAR: is it a question of consulting staff or carrying out a marketing operation? – Alicante Regulatory Agency (EUIPO) – The results of the new Method: 2016 salary adjustment – Contract agents: political consultation with VP Georgieva – Citizens’ appeal supported by U4U in defence of European integration – Local staff committee elections in Luxembourg |
| 11 january 2017 | – European Union: an unacceptable situation – New careers: greater coherence, transparency and predictability – Health care pricing in Luxembourg – Publication of the vacancy notice for 5 armed security guards at the European Parliament in Strasbourg – Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme – JSIS: Our common fund – Fair and equal treatment for all: U4U stands for more transparency in staff management at the EP – Leave in the interests of the service: first implementation of Article 42c by the – European Commission – What can be done for CAs? Contract Agents in Executive Agencies |
| 24 january 2017 | – EP elections: U4U wins two seats – Günther OETTINGER would like to meet the unions – Contract agents: the end of the tunnel in sight? – Evaluation & Promotions: our vade mecum – Professional incompetence: a consultation process that is still groping its way through – 2016 opinion survey: it’s not enough to note, we have to act! – European Parliament: we are all interpreters! – Union for Unity supports social dialogue at EASA – Brexit: Pros & cons Conference with R. Corbett – EU foreign policy, global strategy: why is it my business? – Training for EPSO competitions from your desktop, in English – U4U at your service |
| 4 april 2017 | – 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome: time for Europe to wake up! – HR centralisation at the Commission: necessity, fad or panacea? – Preventive medicine: a cost or an investment? – JSIS: something new for the NIP Test – Social dialogue: should the EP lag behind? – Canteens and cafeterias in Luxembourg: The Commission must clarify its policy – European Parliament: Merit assessment and promotion: U4U proposes an amendment to the current rules – European Commission: Evaluation/promotion: where do we stand? – Brexit: time for clarification – Training for EPSO competitions from your desktop, in English – U4U at your service |
| 16 may 2017 | – At the end of the conciliation on the AC, problems remain – Outside activities and activities after termination of service – DGT: “lost in translation”? – DG RTD: in search of a political role – U4U mobilises for the construction of Europe – Letters to the Editor: training content is not neutral |
| 19 june 2017 | – Centralisation des RH : premier bilan – Promotions – U4U vous aide pour votre appel – Agents temporaires à l’OLAF – Dialogue social à l’AESA : U4U rencontre l’administration et le Comité du personnel – U4U et les entreprises communes – Parlement Européen : ” Open space ” au Wilfried Martens ? – La Cour des comptes européenne aura un impact (positif) sur l’OLAF – Surtarification des soins de santé au Luxembourg |
| 3 october 2017 | – SOTEU 2017 – Philippe KERAUDREN: our comrade, our friend -Temporary Agents in OLAF -Open Spaces in PMO and OIB – Agreement U4U/EUIPO – Outside activities permitted during and after active service – La Bruxelloise: women’s race against cancer – The latest issue of GRASPE |
| 18 october 2017 | – European Parliament: no more arbitrary decisions! – Commissioner Oettinger informs staff representatives – European Parliament, DG SAFE – U4U creates a U4U Tube channel – EP: interpreters – What is the status of our Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme? – EP: session agents in Strasbourg – EUROSTAT report on pension schemes – Graspe 32 coming soon |
| 8 january 2018 | – Trade union meeting with Commissioner Oettinger – Pay adjustments 2017 – For a European social floor – Brexit: An agreement for the long-term coverage of our pension fund – Rue de La Loi branches – Transfer of pension rights – Judgment of the General Court in Case T 728/16 – Preventive medicine – the new screening programmes – Preventive medicine and annual medical check-ups: not to be confused! – EUIPO staff committee elections in Alicante: a victory for U4U |
| 6 february 2018 | – What budget for the EU after Brexit? – Brexit: Commissioners Oettinger & King meet UK staff – Temporary agents at OLAF: progress for some, status quo and deadlock for others – European Schools and Brexit – DG NEAR: open space, the failure of a bad policy and a bad method – JSIS preventive medicine – AST mobility now compulsory at the European Parliament – Luxembourg: Good practices for AST staff |
| 21 March 2018 | – We are Europe: Large citizens’ rally on Sunday 25 March – 9.8 million workers denied minimum standards on information and consultation rights – Promotions in figures today – Concertation on professional incompetence – Contract agents: continuing to improve their working conditions and careers – Representation office staff: U4U’s proposals – Mobility of ASTs & AST/SCs at the EP – U4U writes to Klaus Welle – Deductions from annual leave: the EP admits its mistake |
| 23 April 2018 | – Which heading 5 for which European budget? – Brexit: the College speaks out in support of U4U’s positions – Let’s defend our library! – Staff meeting on 19 April 2018 in Brussels: we can do better! – Osons l’Europe: The rally of 25 March 2018, a good start to encourage future initiatives – AC: Acting to solve problems – Temporary agents at OLAF – Elections to the ISPRA/Seville Staff Committee: coming soon! – Commission report on the implementing rules for the Staff Regulations |
| 22 may 2018 | – Defending the civil service to defend the Union. Defending the Union to defend Europeans – Our pension fund: what does the Commission want to do? – The creation of a genuine management school within the European Institutions – JSIS – Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme: Revision of the 2007 General Implementing Provisions (GIP) -Update on the adjustment of remuneration and pension contributions – The actions of the European Citizens’ Platform – Social dialogue in the European Parliament: a total failure – Letters to the Editor: Our pension fund |
| 25 june 2018 | – WAKE UP, WAKE UP EUROPE: Join #wakEUp – Brussels, 28 June – European Parliament: We are all interpreters! – EEAS, Referendum: Vote for Proposal #2 – Nobody goes on strike out of the blue – Young or Junior professionals: what can we say? – OLAF, a big step towards mobility and transparent selection procedures – The new U4U Board of Directors – Facts and arguments: Preserving the pension scheme for European Union staff is a priority for staff! |
| 12 july 2018 | – Tribute to Simone Veil – Interpreters’ strike at the European Parliament: Open letter to MEPs – Do you know Radio Ekonomika? – European Parliament: extension of the WAYENBERG crèche – U4Utube – DGT: acting together! – What’s new for the spouses of future pensioners? – New management at OLAF: an opportunity to improve working conditions – U4U at the European Railway Agency (ERA) – EEAS staff approve our choice! – To divide the staff is to fight against one’s own interests. Let’s work clearly for staff unity! |
| 3 september 2018 | – U4U, a European trade union for all employees of the institutions – U4U speech by Patrice Grosjean at the Simone Veil tribute ceremony – Concertation with the Commissioner on 10 July: a bit of confusion and some alarming news! – Let’s stand together: Let’s not sacrifice our ASTs! – U4U supports the CCP campaign for Greece! – Adjustment of pay and pensions for 2018 – Prescription of pecuniary rights: Richard Zink v European Commission judgment |
| 2 october 2018 | – U4U takes part in staff committee elections – The list proposed by U4U – Humour: the wrong bias of the EP President – U4U proposals for AD careers – Against sanctions against 7 MEPs for supporting interpreters – Internal competitions: good news at last – The European Schools are in serious trouble – U4U fights for quality staff services and wins battles – Prolonged stress at work creates health problems – Have you heard of Radio Ekonomika? – How to avoid problems when retiring – Living Conditions Allowances – The Court extends the concept of working time |
| 6 november 2018 | – Professional elections: Open letter to Commission staff in Brussels – Open letter to Jean Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission – Garderie aérée: Increase in parental contribution from 2019 and U4U’s demands – Change of system for security guards working shifts: night guards win their art.90 complaint – After-school child care – Summary of the conference on the unemployment scheme for contract staff – U4U supports the “12 hours for Greece” actions – The joint committee on probation reports – Conference of Staff Committees of International Organisations, October 2018, at the European Parliament – U4Utube: the new U4U media – Issue 34 of Graspe magazine has been published – Letters to the editor |