Press Release: Social dialogue in Europe: together for a new start

On 5 March 2015 the European Commission organised, in Brussels, a High-Level Conference bringing together leaders of European and national employers' and workers' organisations, Members of the European Parliament and representatives from the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

This Conference, called 'A new start for social dialogue', was intended to be an important step forward in strengthening and deepening dialogue with a broad cross-section of social partners in order to better address the economic and social challenges faced in Europe, as set out in the Political Guidelines 2014 and 2015 Work Programme of the European Commission.

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