The European Commission (EC) is part of the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government,with 27 members of the Commission headed by a President. It includes an administrative body of about 32,000 European civil servants. The commission is divided into departments known as Directorates-General (DGs) that can be likened to departments or ministries each headed by a Director-General who is responsible to a Commissioner.
Politics in Austria reflects the dynamics of competition among multiple political parties,which led to the formation of a Conservative-Green coalition government for the first time in January 2020,following the snap elections of 29 September 2019,and the election of a former Green Party leader to the presidency in 2016.
The Lisbon Strategy,also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process,was an action and development plan devised in 2000,for the economy of the European Union between 2000 and 2010. A pivotal role in its formulation was played by the Portuguese economist Maria João Rodrigues.
A works council is a shop-floor organization representing workers that functions as a local/firm-level complement to trade unions but is independent of these at least in some countries. Works councils exist with different names in a variety of related forms in a number of European countries,including Great Britain;Germany and Austria (Betriebsrat);Luxembourg;the Netherlands and Flanders in Belgium (ondernemingsraad);Italy;France;Wallonia in Belgium,Spain and Denmark.
The Confederation of European Business,shortened as BusinessEurope,is a lobby group representing enterprises of all sizes in the European Union (EU) and seven non-EU European countries. It is made up of 40 national industry and employers' organizations. The current president of the confederation is Fredrik Persson,while the Director General is Markus J. Beyrer.
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is the major trade union organisation representing workers at the European level. In its role as a European social partner,the ETUC works both in a consulting role with the European Commission and negotiates agreements and work programmes with European employers. It coordinates the national and sectoral policies of its affiliates on social and economic matters,particularly in the framework of the EU institutional processes,including European economic governance and the EU Semester.
David Casa is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is Malta's longest serving MEP,having served since June 2004. As a member of the Nationalist Party in Malta,he belongs to the European People's Party.
The Alliance for the Future of Austria is a right-wing populist,national conservative political party in Austria.
Paul Rübig is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1996 until 2019. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party,part of the European People's Party.
Gerson von Bleichröder was a Jewish German banker.
Community is a British trade union which formed in 2004. The union represents workers in a diverse range of sectors,including iron and steel,justice and custodial,domestic appliance manufacturing,textiles and footwear,road transport,betting,the third sector,education and early years as well as the self-employed.
Switzerland is not a member state of the European Union (EU). It is associated with the Union through a series of bilateral treaties in which Switzerland has adopted various provisions of European Union law in order to participate in the Union's single market,without joining as a member state. Among Switzerland's neighbouring countries,all but one are EU member states.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is the world's largest trade union federation.
Barbara Prammer was an Austrian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 2006 she was the first woman to become President of the National Council of Austria,an office she held until her death.
The World Organization of Workers (WOW) is an international trade union federation.
Algirdas Sysas is a Lithuanian social democratic politician and trade unionist. He is the Deputy Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania since November 2012 and Deputy Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) since 2009. Prior to political activities,Sysas was the leader and initiator of the independent Lithuanian trade unions.
Evelyn Regner is an Austrian lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament from Austria since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria,part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and elected Vice-President of the European Parliament.
Andreas Schieder is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Friedrich Verzetnitsch is an Austrian former trade unionist.
A British confederation or a confederal UK has been proposed as a concept of constitutional reform of the United Kingdom,in which the countries of the United Kingdom;England,Scotland,Wales,as well as Northern Ireland become separate sovereign states that pool certain key resources within a confederal system with a central authority. Under the system,the central authority exists with the consensus of the constituent countries,which also maintain a right to secession,if they wish.
