Issues raised included outsourcing/privatisation, restructuring exercises and nominations, remuneration and pensions, the job descriptions of all staff, and simulations of the effect of staff cuts currently taking place (-5%, -10%, -15%).

Staff expressed their opinions and concerns in a frank and constructive discussion.

At the end of the meeting, staff urged their union representatives:

- that the President of the Commission, Romano Prodi, should be personally involved in the Reform process, given that the Vice-President with responsibility for Reform is pursuing objectives other than the strengthening of the European public service;

- that guarantees should be forthcoming that the public service will continue to be multilingual and multicultural in serving European citizens;

- that the Commission should give a good example by issuing its own job description before imposing such an appalling bureaucratic exercise on its staff;

- that there should be an end to the demagogic propaganda that the Commission perpetrates on its staff by electronic mail;

- that permanent dialogue should be established between staff and their representatives;

- that nominations for senior officials’ posts should be above suspicion, and be proposed in full transparency and on the basis of objective criteria.

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