Could you please send this directly to Mrs Kathie
Harris at the following e-mail address :
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K.harris@ert.be
Thank you in advance.
Sabine Leblon
European Round Table
Tel : +32 2 /534 31 00 ou 543 10 57
E-mail : s.leblon@ert.be
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Message-----
From: eos [mailto:eos@sol.co.uk]
Sent: 01 October 2001 10:47
To: efes@cog.kent.edu
Subject: Re: EFES: EFES letter to
all European Governments, October 1, 2001
Marc
Could
you ensure that the Scottish Parliament is included in you mailing!
Henry
McLeish MSP
The
First Minister
The
Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99
1SP
(Tullis
Russell are in his consstituency)
You
might also want to copy to Wendy Alexander MSP, Minister for Enterprise &
Lifelong Learning at the same address
(and
for the UK government to Gordon Brown MP PC, Chancellor of the Exchequer.)
Hugh
Hugh Donnelly
Employee Ownership Scotland Ltd
Robert Owen House
87 Bath Street
Glasgow
G2 2EE
0141 304 5465
Phone/fax
eos@sol.co.uk
www.eos-online.co.uk
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Original Message -----
To: efes@cog.kent.edu
Sent: Saturday, September 29,
2001 8:55 PM
Subject: EFES:
EFES letter to all European Governments, October 1, 2001
This is the
letter EFES - the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership - is sending
to all European governments.
You can send your comments and advices, registering yourself in EFES
FORUM on http://cog.kent.edu/register.html,
and after receiving your registration, sending your comments on EFES@cog.kent.edu
October 1, 2001
Dear Mister Prime Minister,
On behalf of EFES I would like to invite you to
nominate a representative of your government to participate in the
international conference on employee ownership on Friday 23 November 2001,
which is being hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
You will be aware of the positive impact that employee share ownership and participation have on productivity,
in particular, and economic and social development and employment, in general.
This factor can be of high importance, since it is estimated at 1% a year additional growth of the
GDP. In terms of employment in Europe, this is potentially thousands of
additional jobs.
In this context, the Social Agenda agreed by you
at the Lisbon Summit in 2000 invited the European Commission to publish an
Action Plan and Communication on Financial Participation before the end of
2001.
To this end, the Commission has just launched a
consultation procedure and your government was invited to respond.
The document of consultation of the Commission
is available on our web site www.efesonline.org
and we opened a forum on the site to discuss
the matter.
We draw your attention to the “European Action
Programme” which our Federation based on the Resolution of the European
Parliament adopted in January 1998.
We look forward to you and your government´s
support for these efforts and encouragement of the European Commission to
advance this work.
Yours sincerely
Marc Mathieu
Secretary General
EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHAREOWNERSHIP
FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE
Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels
Tel/fax: +32 (0)2 242 64 30
E-mail: marc.mathieu@ping.be
See our web site: http://www.efesonline.org
EFES' objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners and
all persons, companies, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions
looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe.