Un common minimum wage across the Eurozone. This is the proposal of the president of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker to the European Parliament: "We need a clear and inescapable system of social rights for workers", we need, above all, that Europe provides an answer "to the essential demands of legal minimum in the whole area”, if he doesn't want to lose “to put it in Marx's words, the support of the working class”.
Juncker then pointed the finger, again during the hearing in Parliament, on the labor market crisis: "We are underestimating the enormous tragedy of unemployment, which is crushing us". The president of the Eurogroup underlined the record unemployment rate, exceeding 11%, recalling the promise "to Europeans that among the advantages of the single currency there would be an improvement in social imbalances".
Juncker, on the other hand, proved to be much more optimistic about the general economic situation in the euro area, drawing up a balance sheet for 2012 that has just ended: “today we are in a much better state than a year ago".
The president of the Eurogroup also anticipated that the head of the unified supervision of banks in Europe that will be operated by the ECB will be a woman, "a French representative", without however revealing her name. The rumors converge on the figure of Danièle Nouy, secretary general of the division that carries out prudential controls at the Bank of France.
