After a long battle that lasted 8 years, on December 15, 2022, the European Union Tribunal ruled that Maxime Picard, a contract agent at the Commission since 2008, should keep his acquired pension rights despite his change of Function Group (FG) after the entry into force of the 2014 Staff Regulations.

According to Umberto Eco, the language of Europe is translation.

An adage that echoes within the EU through its motto ‘In varietate concordia’.

This has never been more true since the recent case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on competitions and language arrangements.

No, not really... and the only novelties are not moving in quite the direction that we are recommending.

As already stated in our previous articles (Where shall we eat? Part I and Part II), TAO-The Independents urged upon the different instances to introduce a price reduction for the lowest wages.

Still almost no news on the internal competitions for AST/SC colleagues. This matter is key for the career development of colleagues belonging to this function group. Dead calm sea in the offices of DG HR, as usual… Stress is only created at the other side of the fence.

It’s not easy working and living in Luxembourg. We know it.

Last year saw further incremental growth towards electrification of car mobility in Belgium. One in three of newly registered cars in 2022 were either plug-in hybrid or electric, compared to one in four back in 2021.

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