The EU crisis management in the light of international labour and social security standards

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduction: austerity measures and violation of ILS. – 2. Member States’ obligations towards ILO. – 2.1. Member States’ obligations towards international organizations. An introduction. – 2.2. About the legal effect of ILO Conventions. – 2.3. EU Member States, ILO obligations and Memoranda of Understandings. – 3. The EU and the International Labour Organization. – 3.1. ILO and EU: a story of poor cooperation. – 3.2. EU institutions acting as international actors: which relationship with the ILO?. – 4. Concluding remarks.