This paper explores the EU solidarity place inside the labour relations. The first part scrutinizes the context in which in the EU solidarity can be developed: Solidarity between workers has national roots, no place at the Eu Institutional level, is limited inside the European Social dialogue....

The European Work Council is a transnational actor which represents the workers in European firms. The paper identifies the difficulties and obstacles which limits the powers of EWC (legitimacy in question, content of constitutive agreement, link with national bodies, transnational coordination...

In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners’ actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In...

This paper tries to identify the role of the European Work Council in transnational firms’restructurings in the EU.The European Work Council has a weak position during the crisis but in favourable conditions can have a new role in different directions ( transnationalinformations, action with...

Since 1998, the World Health Organisation has recognised obesity as a problem of epidemic proportions. As none of the EU Member States is spared, the European Commission has recently published a Green Paper aimed at gathering evidence on how it could develop anobesity prevention strategy at...

One of the most important effects of the employment’s internationalisation is analysed by the movement of firms in Europe called delocalisation. In France the debate is stressed on redundancy and loss of jobs. For complex reasons, the environment created by the European market and the...

The Code of Good Administrative Behaviour has passed fairly unnoticed in academic research on the principle of good administration. However, it is an important source to understand the meaning of this principle and concept in European administrative law, since it encompasses some of its...