Brussels, 08/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - Trade unions have issued a warning: greater economic integration of the EU cannot be achieved without progress being made on the social front and by keeping within the austerity measures underpinned by the spectre of sanctions. Such progress, which should take the form of a “protocol on social progress”, calls for active participation on the part of the unions in order to ensure the democratic and social nature of the treaty changes envisaged by the...