The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) organised a march for a ‘fairer Europe for workers’ in Brussels on 26 April 2019. With this march, in which some 8000 workers took part, the ETUC wanted to draw attention to the European elections, to call for a better and more social Europe, not less Europe - and for social progress, better pay and better working and living conditions. Over half the 8000 demonstrators came from Belgium and France, with delegations from many European countries including Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Estonia and Switzerland.
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