On 10 September trade unions of the Commission met in the framework of social dialogue procedure in order to give their opinion on changes proposed by the Administration to the JPP decision.
Just to remind you that JPP is a scheme that offers temporary AD5-level posts to early-career professionals with maximum 3 years of relevant professional experience and aimed at high-potential junior professionals at the start of their EU policy or administrative career. The programme is designed to give participants hands-on professional experience in the EU institutions, often through policy, operational, analytical or coordination work. Continue reading social dialogue on Junior Professional Programme (JPP)
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Note that the article below is now obsolete. It predates the 
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Our institution as well as our working and private lives have, in the recent past, undergone substantial change. So much so that the word reorganisation stopped soliciting any surprise. We are used to it and it happens everywhere and at reasonably regular intervals, such as before the arrival of a new Commission or Cabinets: the outgoing one might look to perhaps reshuffle things in order to 
We are in April and DG HR has not yet provided competition planning (provisional or otherwise). We do not think that this will change any time soon. Even if the planning was to become available now, the ongoing exclusion of certain staff categories (16 000 potentially eligible staff) from internal competitions requires action and the most recent example of this is the internal competition published at the end of the last year (
*Update 15.01.2025, Here’s our December note on 
*Update 23.09.2025: It’s now official: 50 AST/SCs are to have the (mis)fortune of doing an AST post without the corresponding AST promotion speed or career potential. Check the 