*Update of 27.09.2024, here is additional useful documentation. Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you online training for the competition EPSO/AST/156/24 Assistants (AST3) in 3 fields (1. Financial management 2. Accounting and treasury 3. Public procurement) with a special discount rate for our members ONLY.
The offer includes modules on Self-study Multiple Choice Questionnaires (MCQ). All training modules will be in English.
*Update 07.03.2025: YSE – TEST MCQ on EU + Written Test COM Internal Competition 2024 – FULL GROUP/ Registration closed. YSE – Self-study TEST MCQ on EU + Written Test – COM Internal Competition 2024 – book it via Teachable (here). YSE – WRITTEN Test – COM Internal Competition 2024 – FULL GROUP/Registration closed. Continue reading Training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2
Do you know that your personal data is being transferred on regular basis to your national EU Permanent Representation? And not only there. Actually, DG HR has been sending mass quantity of sensitive data of tens of thousands of active Commission staff, 3 times per year to your Member State Perm Reps plus your host country Perm Reps: Belgium or Luxembourg.
Continue reading Do you know what your Perm Rep knows about you?
*Update 15.02.2025 here’s the January 2025 response we’ve received to our September 2024 note on this topic.*
Original article: We’re all well used to jumping through administrative hoops within the institutions. When hoop-jumping becomes an Olympic sport we fully expect the Commission to be on the podium. In the meantime, we have observed that the hoops related to the new health screening programme appear to have been made just a little more difficult than necessary. Continue reading Health screening: hoops to jump through
Ah, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (Eismea). Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more exciting (read: Eismea: when better becomes worse | Generation 2004), we’re hit with yet another plot twist: the publishing of a new position that has everyone scratching their heads. It’s like that moment in a movie where the villain turns out to be… Continue reading Eismea’s Latest Adventure: A Mission to the US or Losing Staff Trust Forever?
*Update 25.09.2024 check out the Opinion from 50+ civil society organisations on the new European Commission and Equality ‘downgrade’ in European Commission dismays rights groups*
Original article: Here we go again, beautiful words that are forgotten at the first hurdle. On the occasion of the naming of the unbalanced new college of Commissioners and in light of the observation that Gender equality is still [at best] 60 years away, Generation 2004 looks back at the declarations the president has made about the changes she identified as necessary, the changes she promised to implement, the fair share she demanded not so long ago… Continue reading What happened to the fair share?
*Update 28.10.2024 we’ve added a status on the case(s) at the bottom of this article. Thank you all for your support!*
Original article: We start with a story[1]. There was once an EU Member State whose government was repeatedly named as a cause for concern with regards to its record on the rule of law (2020, European Parliament), the rights of women (2022, UN) and those of minorities (2022, Amnesty International) That government was also named as a cause of concern with regards to allegations of oppressing independent journalists and media freedom (2023, MFRR)[2]. Continue reading It’s all about our rights!
*Update 03.10.2024 a transfer out to a PMO-approved scheme, such as the one presented by the (external) Allianz broker is only one of several options available.*
*Update 01.10.2024 full list of PMO-approved schemes added.* *Update 26.09.2024 footnote on local agents added below.* Continue reading Conference: transfer-out of pension rights
Welcome to the eighth edition 2024 of Generation 2004 Newsletter! In this issue, discover our checklist & tips for your holidays and the new training offer for the ongoing EPSO competitions. Also find updates on Contract Agents (CA) 3A’s unemployment insurance payment, fairer pension contributions for contract (CA) and temporary (TA) agents, and the 7-year rule for Contract Agents. Continue reading Newsletter editorial – 16-07-2024
*Update 10.11.2024 the European Court of Auditors, Special report 24/2024: EU Civil service–A flexible employment framework, insufficiently used to improve workforce management, 2024 coincides with many of the issues we have pointed out below. Check it out!* Continue reading EPSO’s Chronic Ineptitude – Ombudsman Exposes Systemic Failures
