TALLINN - In Estonia's drive toward European Union membership, there is little doubt that Parliament will ratify the European Social Charter. The question is, rather, how much of it to ratify and how soon, and what that ratification actually means.Parliamentary debate on ratification of the Council of Europe's revised and expanded Social Charter, which Estonia signed May 4, 1998, began Nov. 10. A second reading took place Nov. 16.Parliament's social commission recommended the ratification, in whole or in part, of 24 articles of the charter's 31. These include the right to work, the right to...
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