Participation of Memur-Sen at the seminar organized by Eurofound: “Improving quality of life in Europe

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Participation of Memur-Sen at the seminar organized by Eurofound: “Improving quality of life in Europe – Sharing data to shape better policies”.

29.06.18, Friday

On 26 June 2018, Eurofound brought together up to 60 representatives of public authorities at European, national and regional level, trade unions, business, academia and civil society from the EU candidate countries - Albania, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey in a one-day seminar in Belgrade, Serbia: “Improving quality of life in Europe – Sharing data to shape better policies”. Memur-Sen Delegation led by Vice-President Mehmet Emin ESEN took part in the seminar.

The seminar drew on Eurofound’s recent European Quality of Life Survey and provided an opportunity to discuss the findings on life and society in the EU candidate countries as well. The survey results in the candidate countries provide new data to complement existing social statistics.

Led by Rob Anderson, head of the Social Policies unit at Eurofound, the thematic fields of this seminar focused on dealing with the crisis and possible solutions for improving the quality of life, strengthening quality public services at a time when the global economic crisis is causing dynamic changes in the labour market.

Commenting on the presentations and working groups, Esen, Vice President of the Memur-Sen Confederation, stressed the importance of trade union activity: "Trade unions should be more efficient and better to coordinate their activities, they can be more effective by encouraging the social partners to follow examples of good practices in avoiding and dealing with labour market crises, "he said.