{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/priorities\/state-union-speeches\/state-union-2018_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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&#8217;s social dimension should be given the Cinderella treatment no more, but should instead be geared towards the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This action is more than <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/html5\/reader\/production\/default.aspx?pubname=&amp;edid=c87a648a-a957-47e9-ad00-77139ed62ae1&amp;pnum=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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":"<p>During the State of the Union 2018 speech, the European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}