La construction d’un « droit social européen »

Fertikh, Karim

doi:10.3917/pox.115.0201

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“…In the Netherlands, the socialist Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (NVV) was attempting to form a federation with the two Christian federations at national level, the Industrial Workers' Union (NKV) and Christian National Trade Union Federation (CNV). 21 The period also saw further geographical and ideological unification of trade unions at the European level. In February 1973, the transformation of the ECFTU into the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) marked an important step in this direction, as the ETUC now brought together the socialist-leaning trade unions of the nine EC countries and the six countries of EFTA.…”

Section: Socialism Through Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regional development policy grew from 5 to 7 per cent of the total EC budget between 1975 and 1984, which remained proportionally small compared to the total EC budget (not to mention national budgets), and much less than the UK and Italy had hoped for. 21 The CAP-the EC's main redistributive policy-was absorbing more than two-thirds of the budget and was increasingly criticized at the time for generating expensive and wasteful surplus production, for becoming excessively costly, and for its negative social consequences for poorer workers, as it favoured large farms to the detriment of small and medium ones. With an EC budget that oscillated between 0.5 and 0.8 per cent of the wealth produced in the EC in the second half of the 1970s (and averages 1 per cent today), the EC's redistributive dimension remained very limited.…”

Section: Dropping the 'European Social Union'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Europe, the Road not Taken

Andry

2022

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This book examines the European Left’s attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration—a ‘social Europe’—during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival research, it shows that the western European Left—in particular, social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent ‘Eurocommunist’ parties—formulated a broad project to turn ‘capitalist Europe’ into a ‘workers’ Europe’. This alternative model of European unity favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratization of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonization of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning with greater consideration for the environment, increased public spending to meet collective needs, greater control of capital flows and multinational corporations, a reduction in working time, and a fairer international economic order favouring the global South. During the pivotal years following 1968, deeply marked by labour militancy, new social movements, economic crisis, and the unmaking of the ‘postwar compromise’, a window of opportunity opened in which European integration could have taken different roads. The defeat of ‘social Europe’ was a result of a decade-long social conflict which ended with the affirmation of a neoliberal Europe. Investigating this forgotten power struggle and the reasons of its defeat can be useful not just to scholars and students eager to understand the historical evolution of European integration, the European Left, and European capitalism, but also to anyone interested in building alternative European and global futures.

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Section: Socialism Through Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dropping the 'European Social Union'mentioning

confidence: 99%