Next year will be an election year: we will elect the new Members of the European Parliament and a new European Commission will be appointed. With the major political parties already in campaigning mode, it’s time to look at the achievements of the current Commission. And also to remind about some of the promises that were made almost four years ago.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission wanted to “ensure that social dumping has no place in the European Union.” In fact, we see quite the opposite: social dumping has become the norm, not the exception in the European aviation industry. With the low cost market leaders in Europe setting the standards, the “race to the bottom” has not yet stopped. The new contracts for pilots of Ryanair Sun in Poland are a chilling example of everything that went wrong with employment & working conditions in Europe.
