ITALIAN FLAEI – CISL VISITED CCM
03/07/2012
Hand of friendship, support for the Macedonian workers and contribution to the Macedonian membership in the European Union - cordial messages by Carlo De Mesi, president of the Italian Trade Union of Energy FLAEI - CISL for the Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia.
The meeting was held today within several days working visit of the Italian Trade Union with the Independent Trade Union of the Workers in Energy industry of Macedonia. The presidents of both trade unions, Carlo De Mesi and Robert Simonoski signed a Cooperation Memorandum and identified a series of initiatives for specific areas of cooperation.
President of CCM Zivko Mitrevski briefed the guests about CCM, which stressed that unions understand each others more easily than politicians do. However, as the Republic of Macedonia is a candidate for EU integration, CCM has the same status in ETUC.
We are very glad to receive a helping hand of friendship from a tormented nation with such a difficult history, said President Carlo de Mesi. We believe that unity among nations leads to political cooperation and that our continent needs a rapprochement of nations. We hope that cooperation between unions will affect political relations between Macedonia and Italy.