"At a press conference in December 2008, the European social partners unveiled their final report on implementation of the framework agreement on work-related stress which they had signed four years earlier. It is clearly too soon to tot up its practical impact in workplaces, but one thing that can already be said for sure is that it will have helped start the debate going in countries where it was off-limits, and revive it in those where it was stalled."

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