Showing posts with label Civil Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Society. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A European Social or Societal Model?

I am not sure that a European social model exists, but IMO a European Societal model does, it is one of secularism and rule of law!

But problem is, IMO, that there are too many laws (national & now EU) for a citizen to be aware of, thus the European Societal model kinda fails doesn't it?

Friday, January 8, 2010

Key achievements of the horizontal European Social Dialogue to-date

Since 1993 (when the EU Treaty provided for), the European cross-industry Social Dialogue has led to:

3 agreements implemented by Council Directive, on parental leave (1995), part-time work (1997) and fixed-term contracts (1999)

and

3 autonomous agreements on telework (2002), work-related stress (2004) and harassment and violence at work (2007)

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Friday, September 25, 2009

EU Social DIalogue and Social Partners

Have Social Dialogue + Social Partners made progress in recent years in the EU and its member states? Elsewhere?

Civil Society, then and now!

Have the concept and practices of Civil Society (Citizens Society) evolved - progressed in recent years?