The ETUC proposes to add a Social Progress Protocol to the Treaties. Such a Protocol would unambiguously clarify and establish the relation between fundamental social rights and economic market freedoms. This clause must take the form of a protocol to be attached to the European Treaties so as to be binding at the highest level to ensure that it influences the decisions of the ECJ. It should contain the following key elements: a) it should confirm that the single market is not an end in (...)