Euro-demonstration ”For social Europe now”, Rome, 2003. Photo: Unknown author / HAEU, ETUC-8-I.10.
Social Europe 1984-1994
Social Partners and European Integration
Photoconsortium’s member HAEU (The Historical Archives of the European Union) has created an online exhibit tracing out the role of social partners in the development of social Europe.
The exhibition sheds light on this lesser-known aspect of European integration: how European institutions and social partner organisations discussed the meaning of Social Europe, and, crucially, how they came to draft and operationalize the Social Policy Agreement of the Treaty of Maastricht. Featuring documents, photographs, videos, first-person accounts and oral history interviews, the exhibition shows how European integration affects Europeans’ daily life in terms of work and social inclusion. It also contextualizes current debates on the EU’s social dimension, and reflects on its future perspectives.
The exhibition is based on research carried out for the EU-funded project “ShaPE- The Social Partners as shapers and makers of Social Europe: discovering foundations and futures”.
