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Social Chapter
noun
- the section of the Maastricht Treaty concerning working conditions, consultation of workers, employment rights, and social security. The UK government negotiated an opt-out clause from this section of the treaty in 1993 but adopted it in 1997
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He signed up to the EU’s social chapter that his predecessor John Major had negotiated an opt-out from.
From Washington Times
He signed up to the EU’s social chapter that his predecessor John Major had negotiated an opt-out from.
From Seattle Times
John Major declined to join the eurozone and the EU social chapter.
From The Guardian
The row over beef exports during the BSE crisis aside, these were happy days in the Anglo-EU marriage: Blair opted back in to the social chapter and was applauded from Brussels to Berlin.
From The Guardian
And although John Major won opt-outs on the single currency and the social chapter on workers’ rights at Maastricht, the Eurosceptic genie was out of the bottle.
From The Guardian
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