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Post SEA (1987) - Community Charter (1989) push to have a single market: the consequences need to formulate the ‘social dimension’ and give the idea of.

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1 Post SEA (1987) - Community Charter (1989) push to have a single market: the consequences need to formulate the ‘social dimension’ and give the idea of a ‘people’s Europe’ some substance; (i) The Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers (ii) The Associated Action Programme (iii) Proposed Community legislation

2 1989 Social action programme accompanied the Social Charter represented the high water mark of Community’s social policy to date a plethora of new employment Directives -working time - European works Councils - ‘atypical’ work - pregnant workers these legislative proposals, often controversial aimed at underpinning a set of workers’ rights

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4 Tensions within social policy-making process a ‘polity-creating’ process going on, as new forums created and new actors induced to participate in Euro-level process LOBBY Groups, e.g. –EP’s Standing Committee on Women’s Rights –European Women’s Lobby, 1991 grouped together NGO’s to co-ordinate women’s interest tensions –regulation vs. de-regulation –keep a balance between 3 principles of Cs. initiatives, subsidiarity, diversity of national systems, cutlures and practices and preserve competitiveness

5 Post Amsterdam Treaty: 1997 Agreement on Social Policy is now incorporated into the main body of the consolidated Treaty Article 13 – this enables action to be taken ‘to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation Title XI: social policy, education, vocational training and youth Title IV (arts. 61 -9), covers visas, asylum, immigration… relevant to social dimension as they impact on the living conditions of residents in members states and on questions of racial equality

6 Post Amsterdam Treaty: 1997 Title VIII, Articles 125 – 30, employment: sets out objectives and responsibilities of member states, calls for co-operation and co-ordinated action

7 Social dimension: moved up the agenda! Santer: ‘there can be no social proess without economic progress; but conversely, economic wealth cannot be built in a social desert


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