On 22-25 May 2014, all European citizens were invited to vote for their representatives at the European parliament. We witnessed a surge of Eurosceptic and far-right parties and a winning center-right. A new President of the Commission was appointed, Jean-Claude Juncker, who promised a “more social Europe” and stressed that “the internal market is not more important than social affairs”. The Parliament also nominated two new commissioners for Transport & Space (Violeta Bulc) and for Employment & Social Affairs (Marianne Thyssen). A hearing at the European Parliament showed that both of them seem to consider social and employment aspects as important. BeCA, through our European structure ECA, will work actively to ensure that these words are translated into acts, to tackle issues such as bogus self-employment, social dumping, unfair competition and downgrading of employment conditions.