10Principles4Treaty 6

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6. PROTECT AND IMPROVE DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Democratic achievements, social, civil and worker’s rights, and rules for the environment and public health are under severe pressure from provisions in earlier treaties, especially the principles of competition and liberalization. Any new Treaty must not endanger these conquests and give people in Europe, parliaments and governments a tool to further develop these democratic achievements on a cooperative basis.

The European Attacs demand the following:

• The right to collective bargaining, the right to strike; ILO core labour standards must be elevated to the status of enforceable fundamental rights.
• Each member state must be allowed to adopt and sustain more ambitious rules in areas such as social protection, labour standards, environment, protection of special groups.
• The European Union shall consider itself as a cooperative (and not competitive) union whose goal is constantly to improve environmental, social and labour standards in order to fulfil the constitutional principles of social security and sustainability. Rules to counteract fiscal and social dumping must be established.
• It must be stated that property rights carry obligations and the use of property rights must always simultaneously serve public welfare.
• Economic democracy and participation must be improved at all levels.