Mückenberger, Ulrich --- "Towards a Post-Viking/Laval Manifesto for Social Europe" [2011] ELECD 894; in Moreau, Marie-Ange (ed), "Before and After the Economic Crisis" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Before and After the Economic Crisis

Editor(s): Moreau, Marie-Ange

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849809924

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Towards a Post-Viking/Laval Manifesto for Social Europe

Author(s): Mückenberger, Ulrich

Number of pages: 13

Extract:

15. Towards a post-Viking/Laval
manifesto for Social Europe
Ulrich Mückenberger

THE TWO MANIFESTOS FOR SOCIAL EUROPE

Brian Bercusson was one of the eight European scholars who were deeply
involved in the elaboration of the two manifestos for Social Europe drawn
up with the support of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI ­ at that
time directed by Reiner Hoffmann). They consisted of an approximately
15-page manifesto proper (published in nearly all European languages and
signed by some hundred European labour scholars) and a manifesto book
(in numerous languages) which gave political, economic and legal back-
ground analyses (Bercusson et al., 1996; Mückenberger, 2001).
Manifesto 1 (with a view to the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)
resulting in the Amsterdam Treaty) was meant to take a step against the
EFTAisation of Europe and to strengthen a tendency which, in T.H.
Marshall's words (1950), was based on political, civil and social rights of
European citizenship and tended towards a democratised Social Europe.
It coincided with Tony Blair's victory in the UK which made it possible to
end the `two-speed European labour law' by converting the social proto-
col into the social policy chapter and adding the employment chapter to
primary law, in 1997. Manifesto 2 tried to move beyond the Amsterdam
Treaty by concretising it, still on the basis of the citizenship approach,
through instruments of industrial citizenship (European collective bar-
gaining), gender equality and the quest for legally binding fundamental
rights combined with legal tools ...