April 24, 2026
By Lize R. Glas On 18 and 19 March 2026, representatives from the Council of Europe (CoE) member states and many others gathered in Chişinău, Moldova, for a high-level conference on the European Social Charter (ESC), in the year of the 65th anniversary of the original ESC and the 30th anniversary of the revised ESC. […]
July 19, 2024
Lize R. Glas In the Reykjavík Declaration (17 May 2023), the member states of the Council of Europe (‘CoE’) reaffirm their ‘full commitment to the protection and implementation of social rights as guaranteed by the European Social Charter system’. In addition to making this important symbolic statement, they promise to ‘consider the organisation of a […]