Taking part are over 600 national trade union delegates including the General Secretaries and/or Presidents of some 90 national trade union organisations from 38 European countries, 10 European sectoral trade union federations and special guests from Europe and beyond, including Antonio Costa, Pime Minister of Portugal, Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Enrico Letta, Dean of PSIA Sciences Po and former Italian Prime Minister, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist.

The Congress will elect a new ETUC leadership team, amend the ETUC Constitution and adopt key documents including the Vienna Manifesto and an ETUC Action Programme 2019-2023.

Irakli Petriashvili, President of PERC was invited to make an intervention during the first day plenary "Building democracy and a better future of Europe for working people". You can find speech below.