Professor Catherine Barnard of Cambridge University and Judge François Biltgen of the EU Court of Justice are spearheading a conference on 19 June on the European Social Model and the values it encompasses, including democracy and individual rights, free collective bargaining, the market economy, equal opportunities, social protection and solidarity. Over the years, all of these have been translated through European labour law into a set of ‘positive laws’.  

The conference starts at 12:00 in the Weicker building, Kirchberg, with the aim of fostering debate on these themes, as they highlight a paradoxical situation of the Brexit process coinciding with the launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights.