The Promotion of Social Rights and Labour Standards in EU External Trade Relations
In the past decade the European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of attempts to strengthen and promote the social dimension of globalization, focusing chiefly on the promotion of labour standards internationally, through increased cooperation with the
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The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards in Its External Trade Relations
The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards in Its External Trade Relations
Samantha Velluti
The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards in Its External Trade Relations With Contributions from Francesca Martines
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Samantha Velluti Sussex Law School School of Law, Politics and Sociology University of Sussex Brighton, UK Contributed by Francesca Martines Department of Law University of Pisa Pisa, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-56746-0 ISBN 978-3-030-56748-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56748-4
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All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come—one day in the unending succession of days—when beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins will stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. H. G. Wells, ‘The Discovery of the Future’, Lecture delivered to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, United Kingdom, 24 January 1902.
In memoriam E. V. Velluti
Preface
The focus of this book—the European Union (EU) as a good global actor and its promotion of non-trade values beyond its borders, specifically human rights and international labour standards through trade—continues to attract scholarly attention and still sparks heated debates and controversy. EU human rights conditionality, the human rights impact of EU (trade) measures, the viability and desirability of the trade–labour link
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