Social dialogue, social pacts Social dialogue, social pacts or a social Europe?

A "social Europe" has been a standing demand of the European trade union movement on the governments and on the EU for many years. If the integration of Europe should be successful, it had to be accompanied by a strong social dimension – a people’s Europe. This, also, was the expressed aim of the European social democracy – to regain control of capital forces and create the «social Europe» through the European Union. Now, social democratic or social democratic dominated governments for the first time since the establishment of the EEC, have been dominating the EU for some years. The «social Europe», however, is still in store. Article by Asbjørn Wahl, published Monthly Rewiew, Vol. 54, No. 2 2002, New York.

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