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"In 1999 the European social partners negotiated the framework agreement on fixed-term work which was then put into effect by Council Directive 1999/70/EC. It contains, inter alia, measures designed to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term contracts. As the relevant clause of the agreement is rather loosely framed, its effect on legislative approximation in the EU is debatable. However, a study of the law on successive fixed-term employment contracts of fifteen EU Member States showed that legislative approximation in this field of law has largely been achieved."

'Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new forms of underclass suffering new forms of insecurity, cause the neoliberal conceptions to forfeit all moral credibility. Increasing conviction is attaching to the notion of social embedding, according to which transnational political and economic areas - such as the European Union - require democratic governance in order to foster social cohesion and environmental sustainability. The change in political climate has also reached the trade unions, whose members are becoming increasingly vocal in their rejection of shareholder capitalism. The trade unions have acknowledged that, on the other side of the nation state, they now have their second home in Europe. As such, they are developing new strategies for deployment in the European arena and seeking to make use of the opportunities offered by coordination of their policies at European level. '

"Tra le forme più significative di regolazione globale del diritto del lavoro sta emergendo e diffondendosi la pratica degli accordi transnazionali di gruppo e dei codici di condotta. Una forma autonoma di dialogo sociale, realizzata principalmente ma non solo, a livello europeo. Il ruolo dei CAE e delle federazioni sindacali internazionali di settore. Quale futuro per la regolazione del lavoro nella globalizzazione?Un'attenta disamina dei profili giuridici e politico-sindacali su un tema destinato ad assumere un ruolo sempre più cruciale nel sindacato di oggi e di domani."