(Dublin, Ireland): The average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union, including Croatia, stood at 38.1 hours in 2012, the same as for the EU27 in 2011, according to Eurofound’s latest annual working time update. The working week was on average 30 minutes shorter in the pre-2004 EU15 countries and over 1 hour and 30 minutes longer in the new Member States. The new report provides a snapshot of working time developments in the European Union and Norway in 2012 as agreed between the social partners by collective agreements.

Brussels 26 June 2013 – In view of the vote in the plenary in Strasbourg next week, the IRU urges MEPs to fully support a roadmap to harmonise national rules on periodic roadworthiness testing and technical roadside checks in the future.

The first ever Public Services Summit has come to an end after a successful two days in Dublin.
Entitled “Reshaping the Future”, participants and speakers explored how to reshape the future through new approaches to the management of services, management of the workforce and longterm investment.

Copenhagen, 26 June 2013 – As the spectrum community gathers together in Brussels for Forum Europe's European Spectrum Management Conference, the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), the expert group responsible for harmonising the efficient use of the radio spectrum across Europe, reiterates its intention to set up a major study on the future use of UHF frequencies, with a special focus on 470-694 MHz, to consider the most effective spectrum management framework for its future use.

In a bid to draw attention to the destructive effects corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies' actions have on small and medium-size farmers, landless people, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers, three GUE/NGL MEPs are today co-hosting a conference on land issues in Europe.