The European Union and its social policy in a global setting : looking for the "European social model" / Roger Blanpain -- European collective bargaining : new prospects of much ado about little? / Jacques Rojot -- The European Community's approach to workers' participation : recent developments / Manfred Weiss -- Human rights at the workplace and the work of the Council of Europe / Robert Birk -- Fundamental social rights in the European Union : "floor of rights" or "drift to the bottom"? / Alan C. Neal.