Organised by the European Movement International, this conference will bring together project partners, EU policy- and decision-makers, leading industry, and academics to discuss key findings from the ShaPE project, which is now coming to its conclusion.
The ShaPE project examines the role social partners have played in treaty-making and law-making for social Europe. It advances proposals for revamping social Europe also revisiting fundamental values and social dialogue structures.
As the EU reflects on its future and the potential revision of its Treaties, this final event of the project will provide an important forum to discuss how social dialogue, and a renewed social Europe can be placed at the heart of the European project. Launching a debate on the future of social Europe and social dialogue, ShaPE contributes with:
- the newly created meta-archive and web portal with a public history mission for a new historically grounded account of the roles of social partners and other relevant actors in Treaty-making in the 1980s (the Single European Act) and early 1990s (Maastricht Treaty and Social Policy Agreement);
- presentation of Report 'The Role of the EU in Shaping Worker Representation to Meet New Challenges and Reinforce Social Dialogue';
- proposals to rebalance social, economic and sustainability requirements in the EU Treaties.
This event at the European Parliament is organised by the European Movement International and hosted by MEP Mr Brando Benifei. The programme includes contributions from high-level speakers representing EU institutions, national and European social partners, and leading academics in the fields of labour law, European governance, and industrial relations. Complete programme and registration information is available here.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines programme under the grant agreement no. 101126499.
Photo: Euro-demonstration 'For social Europe now', Rome, 2003. Photo: Unknown author / HAEU, ETUC-8-I.10.