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EU Law and the Welfare State

EU Law and the Welfare State

Author: Grainne De Burca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199287413
Published In: October 2005
Format: Paperback , 284 pages
Jurisdiction: European Union ? Disclaimer:
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Advances the idea that social welfare should have a distinctive EU dimension
Traces the impact of the EU on member states in social citizenship, fundamental rights, and economic freedoms
Examines the 'Open Method of Co-ordination' and the tensions between market liberalization and social protection in the EU

This collection of essays addresses a topical subject of current importance, namely the impact of the EU on national welfare state systems. The volume aims to question the perception that matters of social welfare remain for Member States of the EU to decide, and that the EU's influence in this field is minor or incidental.

The various essays trace the different ways in which the EU is having an impact on the laws and practices of the Member States in the area of welfare, looking at issues of social citizenship and the influence of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as at the impact of EU economic freedoms - competition law and free movement law in particular - on both 'services of general economic interest' and on national health-care systems. The significance of the so-called Open Method of Coordination in developing a new compromise on 'social Europe' is discussed, as well as the tensions between market liberalization and social protection in the specific context of this transnational political system are examined.

While the various authors clearly have different views on the likelihood of a robust form of European social solidarity developing, the book as a whole suggests the emergence of a distinctive, although partial and fragmented, European Union welfare dimension.

Readership: Students and scholars of EU law and integration, as well as political science students and scholars working on European welfare states

1: Gráinne de Búrca: Towards European Welfare?

2: Maurizio Ferrera: Towards an 'Open' Social Citizenship? The New Boundaries of Welfare in the European Union

3: Síofra O'Leary: Solidarity and Citizenship Rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

4: Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen: Social Security Regulation in the EU: The De-Territorialization of Welfare?

5: Vassilis Hatzopoulos: Health Law and Policy: The Impact of the EU

6: Julio Baquero Cruz: Beyond Competition: Services of General Interest and European Community Law

7: Jonathan Zeitlin: Social Europe and Experimentalist Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?

Gráinne de Búrca, Professor of Law, European University Institute, and Global Law School, New York University

Contributors:

Gráinne de Búrca

Maurizio Ferrera

Síofra O'Leary