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🎅 🎁 It's time to wish Happy Holidays! The end of the year is just around the corner. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for having kept an eye open on our highlights along the year 2024. We thank all those who engaged with our "social media" life, and all those who contributed to spread our messages and the FIEC's word. Thanks to all those partnering with us and following us thus encouraging further successful actions on our side. 🎄🌟 While awaiting for the next challenges, we are excited to send you our best wishes for a joyful and festive Christmas and New Year 2025.

📰 Press cuttings - FIEC in the media 👉 Agence Europe's article on FIEC EU & European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) Joint Letter to the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union on the revision of EU regulations on the coordination of #social security. "Social Security: #Construction sector gives its red lines to upcoming Polish Presidency of EU Council" (original in French) Read the English version of this news story posted on our Website: 🔗https://lnkd.in/d2AunZ92

📰 Press cutting - FIEC EU in the media 👉 Agence Europe's article on FIEC Position Paper on #Housing "Europe’s construction companies publish their recommendations for future plans on sustainable and affordable housing" (original in French) Read the English version of this news story posted on our Website: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dmqdSxT7

📰 FIEC EU in the media 👉 Agence Europe's article on FIEC Position Paper on #Housing "Europe’s construction companies publish their recommendations for future plans on sustainable and affordable housing" (original in French) Read the English version of this news story posted on our Website: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dmqdSxT7  

Save this date! #Eurobridge - 1️⃣1️⃣ April, 2025📍Brussels: The one-in-a-kind international conference on the importance of 👉 bridge #safety and durability. Check out most updated event programme: 🔗https://lnkd.in/deFiEQpg   The ongoing maintenance of these structures is a key element in the #construction sector. As supporter of the conference originally conceived and launched by Tridon christian, FIEC EU will share insights and join experts' talks on the 'bridge' sectoral challenges.

📌 Coordination of #social security FIEC EU & European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), the European social partners of the #construction industry, call again for maintaining the prior notification for the posting of construction #workers, including for short-term #posting and business trips. In a JOINT LETTER addressed to the forthcoming Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union, as well as to the Permanent Representations of the EU Member States, FIEC and EFBWW point out that the construction industry is sensitive to economic and social fraud, and therefore requires strong rules to ensure the fair mobility of its workers. Letter available on our Website: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dCev82AT

🎅 🎁 It's time to wish Happy Holidays! The end of the year is just around the corner. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for having kept an eye open on our highlights along the year 2024. We thank all those who engaged with our "social media" life, and all those who contributed to spread our messages and the FIEC's word. Thanks to all those partnering with us and following us thus encouraging further successful actions on our side. 🎄🌟 While awaiting for the next challenges, we are excited to send you our best wishes for a joyful and festive Christmas and New Year 2025.

🗞️Our last Newsletter of the year 2024 is just out! 👉🔗https://bit.ly/4iGHyJq Check out what's in this issue: 📌 🆕 FIEC EU Position Paper on Affordable #Housing 📌 Priorities of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union 📌European Commission launched evaluation of #PublicProcurement Directives 📌Eurofound "Representativeness Study" for the construction sector is out 📌Climate change & #Workplace Directives 📌#EUDeforestation: application of regulation postponed 📌#Eurobridge: 11 April, 2025 - Brussels 🎄Our warmest Season's Greetings

🆕 Position Paper now available online! FIEC EU published a series of proposals for the "European Affordable #Housing Plan". In particular, our Federation calls for: ✔️ A coordinated approach to drive tailor-made housing-friendly reforms under the responsibility and competency of Member States. ✔️ The mobilisation of both private and public investment. ✔️ Prudential rules imposed by Basel III to be eased, in order to mobilise private investment. ✔️ Improved access to mortgage loans for households and young people. ✔️ A streamlined regulatory and administrative working environment for construction companies, with clear rules which can accelerate construction processes, lower building costs and eventually create overall affordability. ✔️ Greater support to research and innovation, as well as digitalisation, through EU funds to increase the productivity of the construction industry. ✔️ All relevant actors to further work on raising the attractivity of the sector to tackle the shortage of skilled labour. 🗣️ The #construction industry is ready to work closely with the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Parliament and the Member States to help tackle the current housing crisis that the #EU citizens are suffering from.

❗The representativeness study of the European social partner organisations for the #construction sector has just been published by Eurofound. We are glad to read that, once again, FIEC EU has been reconfirmed in its role of social partner as being “the most representative European employer organisation in the construction sector”, with a wide ranging representativeness in 24 out of the 27 Member States and covering large, medium, small and micro-enterprises.