"The European Social Model must be strengthened and not destroyed in this period of crisis", stated Jo Leinen, President of EMI and Bernadette Ségol, Secretary General of ETUC and Vice President of EMI at a meeting today in Brussels.

A public EMI Briefing on the "Consequences of the Economic Crisis for the European Social Model" with Commissioner for Social Affairs László Andor is foreseen to be organised around the month of April.

The EMI’s Political Committee co-chaired by Vice-President Bernadette Ségol will discuss the main challenges and possible solutions on the European level to come out of the economic and social crisis.