On 9 October 2000, Jean-François Caré, International Director, Metalworkers’ Section, in the French General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Pierre Pranchère, former Communist MEP, Pierre Lévy, journalist for the Communist daily newspaper L’Humanité, and Georges Sarre, Deputy Leader of the Mouvement des Citoyens (Citizens’ Movement) political party, publish a joint article in the French daily newspaper Le Monde in which they deplore the weaknesses and dangers of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.