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Labour Movement for Europe: Proposals from the floor on the New Social Europe debate

Published Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 12:40
by noelhatch (631 views and 0 comments)

On 11 March Labour Movement for Europe welcomed PES activists for a debate on New Social Europe. The headline was "Globalization in the community - how can we shape a social Europe?" and the debate took place in London, UK.

The proposals from the floor included:

• Including business in living wage coalitions across Europe
• Committment to temporary and agency workers EU directive
• Harmonise corporate tax across the European Union
• Translating social values into business language
• Redistribute nationally and internationally
• Regain the notion of accountability
• EU trade power to expore social values

To see more proposals and the debate please see the video below:

To read more:

• Yourspace manifesto 2009 discussion paper ‘New Social Europe’
• PES resolution ‘10 Principles for a New Social Europe’

The debate is far from over, so keep your submitting your ideas! Check out the different debates of the "Globalisation of the community, how can we build a more social Europe" here:

• How can we reform of the European social model as part of reforming globalisation?
• How can we rebalance the great swing towards internal market reforms with better social policy reforms?
• How can we make social Europe a concern for everyone?
• How can we go in confidently and boldly about intervening and imposing a degree of accountability?
• Proposals from the floor on the New Social Europe debate

Tags: activists, social dialogue, tax, trade, wages, workers