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  • Lize R. Glas

The Chişinău Declaration on the European Social Charter: continued attention, commitment and relevance

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. […]

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  • Maria Kotsoni

The first COVID-19 related collective complaint before the European Committee of Social Rights deemed inadmissible: Greek Bar Associations v. Greece.

August 11, 2021

By Maria Kotsoni, PhD researcher at the Department of Law of the European University Institute Just a few months after the inadmissibility judgement of Le Mailloux v. France, another inadmissibility decision was adopted in a case related to states’ socio-economic management of the COVID-19 crisis. Only this time it was the European Committee of Social […]

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