G2004 Newsletter no 11 2015

• SOS – Your Pension: EU pension for dummies, G2004 analysis: drastic reductions looming, G2004 exploring solutions
• Promotions Exercise 2014 in the Commission

G2004 Newsletter no 10

• Open letter to European Council President Tusk
• Report from meeting with Vice-President Georgieva

G2004 Newsletter no 9

• More than a Ray of Light: a debrief on the post-2004 conference and first meeting with Vice-President Georgieva
• Generation 2004 on the Commission staff survey – 2014
• Promotions 2014
• Analysis: AD9 internal competitions
• LUX Contract Agents: a fight against precarity in the Commission
• Speakers’ Corner: Sprachenpolitik / in / les institutions européennes

G2004 Newsletter no 8

• Welcome to Candyland: an in-depth look at how DG HR is attempting to circumnavigate the statute as far as the so-called “blockage of careers” is concerned
• Generation Edith Cresson: how to ensure beyond any reasonable doubt that none of the elite suffers any hunger-pains
• Update of the report on equivalence of careers: maladministration, embarrassment … or both?
• Speaking through music: G2004 message song of the month

G2004 Newsletter no 7

• Post-2004 redress: a Ray of Light???
• Commission President-Designate Juncker endorses raison d’etre of Generation 2004
• Dirty games and money for nothing (or “NEPOTISM REDEFIND” for the more discerning)
• Cabinet appointments for common (but deserving) mortals

G2004 Newsletter no 6

• Cucumbers and grapes – how to use the promotion system to strengthen fairness, reward performance and reduce inequality in the EU institutions
• Promotions Exercise 2014 – Appeals: tips & tricks
• EU CV Online – Not a meritocratic way to recruit staff
• Membership

G2004 Newsletter no 5

• The Devil takes the hindmost – Interview with MEP Ingeborg Grässle, Member of the EP’s Budgetary Control Committee
• 2004-2014 Conference: time to move from words to actions
• Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS) “structural deficit” and “increased contribution rate” vs. annual report 2012 CGAM
• Generation 2004 supports the abolition of reserved parking spaces
• Membership

G2004 Newsletter no 4

• The great freeze: “it could have been worse” – no, but really?
• Salary adjustment in Luxembourg
• Generation 2004 fights against the REAL blockage of AST careers
• G2004 office also in Luxembourg
• A “little-big” success for Generation 2004
• Membership

G2004 Newsletter no 3

• 2004-2014: a Decade of “Disunity within Diversity”
• The Annual Salary Adjustment Saga
• Initiative for Unified Legal Actions Against the Statute
• Internal Competitions

G2004 Newsletter no 2

• Message from New Chair of Generation 2004
• Back to the future? – the creation of the ‘new’ function group AST/SC (secretary/clerk) and its implications for post-2004/2014 staff
• EU Fellowship Programme 2014-2015: discrimination of colleagues recruited after 2004 with significant professional experience
• Flagged – Promotion points forgotten
• Generation 2004 in the Local Staff Committee