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Brussels holds Tripartite Social Summit

Brussels recently hosted the Tripartite Social Summit, which focussed on jobs, growth and convergence in Europe. While Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission participated in it and Klaus Huneke, Euratex Vice-President Treasurer, spoke on behalf of the textile and clothing industry.

In his speech Huneke said one of the largest consumer goods sectors in the world is the textile and clothing (TC) sector and the EU TC industry is a leader in world. More than 30 per cent of the exports to the world comprise of EU while the EU Single Market is also one of the most important in terms of size, quality, and design. Over 170,000 companies, with more SMEs are a part of the industry and they provide employment opportunities to 1.6 million workers, majorly women.

The industry is diversified—from fibres to clothing and technical textiles, within which there are further sub-sectors and they have some common interests and diverging in some other cases on industrial needs. National and European Social Partners have played an important role with regard to this over the years.

Huneke pointed out EU Social dialogue is a fundamental tool to support sustainable development of the TC industry. EU Social Partners welcomed the announcement about strengthening of social dialogue and greater involvement of the social partners. He feels that the European Commission should reaffirm and respect the role of independence of social partners in consultation procedures on social legislation and also ensure that they are fully involved topics specifically relevant to their industry. Appropriate processes need to be in place to ensure the requirement of sectorial social partners’ input in the entire process of the European Semester.

 
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