BUILDING POLICY R&D urges OIB to stop considering the Executive Agencies’ staff as second-class personnel! R&D Federal, the largest Trade Union representing the staff of the EU Institutions, Executive and Decentralised Agencies and other EU Bodies, is calling on the Commission to instruct the OIB to stop treating staff in executive agencies as public service guinea […]

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Local Staff serving in the Representations in the European Union are employed in carrying out support tasks (secretaries, clerical officers, drivers, etc.). They run the machinery just as well as the other categories of Staff. They have all been re-cruited many years ago as the Commission no longer recruits local staff within the EU from […]

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“…In 2011, scientists with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, reported that average on-road emissions of tested diesel vehicles ex­ceed allowed limits by up to 14 times.” Nature – International weekly journal of science On the same topic: Corriere della sera In our opinion this underlines once again the importance of […]

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