Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The European employers' union, UNICE/BusinessEurope, is not defined here in a priori fashion as a “pressure group” acting on European institutions. Rather, this paper focuses on the work carried out by its personnel in the framework of aid and technical assistance programs for countries that have recently joined the European Union or are candidates for membership. An examination of the organization, and the content of its training sessions, shows how it acts to promote European integration. Its members help employers' representatives, not only to learn their role, but also to retain it in their country. What is at stake here is the representation of company interests before national governments and having the progress achieved by the community respected and implemented. Despite the upheavals which the process of enlargement has given rise to, the European federation welcomes new national employers' organizations in order to conserve the structure of representation of employer interests before the European Union and the central place it holds in this European space for the representation of interests.
Source: Cahiers Sens public
DOI: 10.3917/csp.013.0035
Authors: Carina Andersson, Coco Norén
Institutions: Uppsala University, European Parliament
Language: French
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1936066825