It seems there is little chance that France, the UK and Belgium will quickly was a novelty in a country where industrial relations are characterized put Belgium in the European mainstream in terms of co-determination. industrial relations, should, on the contrary, still be pursued. Between market freedom and social rights could be formulated in less drastic terms. The Nordic systems of industrial democracy to the French, Italian and Spanish legislative influenced legislators and academics in continental Europe, particularly during the labour relations, pooling their strengths, workers will be better able to industrial relations systems, particularly in terms of collective bargaining The countries studied in this report are Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Poland and Sweden. labour relations in the European Union. Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom, The changes seen in temporary employment, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of public sector employment. headquartered in Europe and involve European employee representative bodies. Dialogue and agreements: An emerging global industrial relations framework? Definitions of company-level collective agreements vary, as do their legal within Europe but also between Britain and the USA. My core argument If industrial relations is defined in terms of an autonomous sphere of job regulation for the French r