Held on Thursday 19 March in Chișinău, under the Moldovan presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the High Level Conference on Social Rights - the European Social Charter - brought together some fifty delegations, who adopted a final Declaration reaffirming European countries’ commitment to the Charter while linking social justice and democratic resilience.
“There is no democratic security without social rights”, declared Alain Berset in his opening address,...