Press Release: Commission proposes cuts for EU civil service

The European Commission formally adopted a package of proposed staff reforms in December 2011 that would deliver €1 billion in savings by 2020, and more than €1 billion every year in the longer term.

This would allow the EU to freeze operational expenditure for administration until 2020. The proposal increases the retirement age, combines a 5% cut in staff with an increase in weekly working hours, lowers salaries in certain areas, increases a special solidarity levy and simplifies the method used for annual adjustments to salaries and pensions.

European Commission: Memo/11/907: Q&A: Staff Reform http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/907&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Parliament: Press Release, 25.4.12: EU staff costs: how to make savings, yet allow the institutions to work http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20120423IPR43724/html/EU-staff-costs-how-to-make-savings-yet-allow-the-institutions-to-work

EUObserver, 26.4.12: MEPs back cost-cutting on EU staff http://euobserver.com/18/116048

De Groene Amsterdammer, 30.7.12: The Eurocracy is really quite small (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2417781-eurocracy-really-quite-small

http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/index_en.htm

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