CESlink | Online Cooperation of the Economic and Social Councils

The Economic and Social Councils and similar institutions (ESCs) in the European Union are consultative public institutions of national interest, established to ensure the social dialogue at national level between the social partners – organisations representing the employers and the employees - and the government. They include representatives of the employers' associations, of trade unions, of the government and of other organisations of the civil society, in socioeconomic, civic, professional and cultural areas.