Governing Labour Standards through Free Trade Agreements: Limits of the European Union's Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters
基于对欧盟与加勒比、韩国、摩尔多瓦三个自贸协定的121次访谈，揭示了欧盟在贸易与可持续发展章节中治理劳工标准的操作缺陷，包括法律政治优先级不足和执行不力，并指出其“共同制定”方法在不同贸易伙伴背景下的局限。
Abstract The EU has established a new architecture of international labour standards governance within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). To examine the operationalization of this framework, we draw upon 121 interviews undertaken with key informants in three FTAs signed with the Caribbean, South Korea and Moldova. We engage with wider debates over external governance and the projection of EU power by showing how operational failings, including a lack of legal and political prioritization of TSD chapters and shortcomings in the implementation of key provisions, have hindered the impact of the FTAs upon labour standards. We also identify significant limitations to the EU's ‘common formulation’ approach when applied to different trading partner contexts, alongside ambiguities about the underlying purpose of the trade–labour linkage. Reflection about the function and purpose of labour standards provisions in EU trade policy is therefore required.