{"id":10526,"date":"2018-09-14T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2018-09-14T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:50:44","slug":"europe-needs-to-offer-new-opportunities-to-its-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=10526","title":{"rendered":"Europe needs to offer new opportunities to its citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the State of the Union 2018<\/a> speech, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, called for a Union that takes better care of its social dimension, stating that \u201cEurope’s social dimension should be given the Cinderella treatment no more, but should instead be geared towards the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

The EFN strongly believes in the potential of the EU to deliver better quality of life for its citizens, but after a decade of social deprivation caused by the economic crisis, it is time for the EU leaders to enact concrete policies benefitting EU citizens.<\/p>\n

This action is more than needed by the nursing community<\/a> that, as emphasised by the EFN Secretary General Paul De Raeve during a conference in Poland, is suffering from hard working conditions that have substantially worsened due to cuts in salaries and jobs.<\/p>\n

As stated by President Juncker \u201cit is time we turn the good intentions that we proclaimed at the Gothenburg Social Summit into law\u201d. EU nurses and citizens need it now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the State of the Union 2018 speech, the European…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11248,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11248","url_meta":{"origin":10526,"position":0},"title":"Europe Day 2019 – Creating a protective, competitive, fair, sustainable and influential Europe!","author":"efn efn","date":"May 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"European citizens often feel that the work of the EU and its Institutions is far from their reality and needs, namely because the world we are living in is fast-paced and changing daily. 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