While Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) of both, the United States and the European Union, include labor issues in specific chapters, only US FTAs explicitly have “labor chapters,” while the EU FTAs have a general reference to labor rights through the human rights clause and otherwise refer to...

Die Europäische Union steht nicht nur für freien Handel, offene Grenzen und eine gemeinsame Währung. Jeder EU-Bürger gleich welchen Alters hat das Recht, in einem EU-Land seiner Wahl zu reisen, zu leben, zu arbeiten, zu studieren oder seinen Ruhestand zu verbringen. Es gibt eine Fülle von...

During the summer and autumn of 1998 the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions carried out a major survey on Employment Options of the Future across the 15 EU Member States and Norway. Who wants to work? When? Why? These were the major questions examined in the...

The Directives aim to provide legal tools protecting individuals against discrimination in the public and in the private sphere. The values the Directives aim to protect are therefore part of the core of the German legal system. The regime of legal regulations envisaged by the Directives have,...

On 8 October 2001, more than 31 years after negotiations had begun, the Council of the European Communities adopted Council Regulation No 2157/2001 (u0093Regulation 2157/2001u0094) on the statute for a European company and the related Council Directive 2001/86/EC supplementing the statute for a...