Full Description
Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "highly competitive social market economy", this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art. 3(3) of the Treaty on the European Union, and discusses its actual and potential transformative effect. In the aftermath of Brexit, and in the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the book is particularly timely and topical, offering new and deeper insights on the complex and constantly evolving social dimension of the EU, ultimately reflecting on how the objective of (re)constituting the EU as a "highly competitive social market economy" might best be achieved.
Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword
BRUNO DE WITTE
List of Contributors
Table of Legislation
Table of cases
Introduction
DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE
PART I
The EU Between Market State Ideals and Social Market Economy Objectives: Placing the Social Market Economy within the Union's Constitutional History
CHARLES EDWARD O'SULLIVAN
The EU Transformation of the Social State
MARCO DANI
Social rights, Social Market Economy, and the European Social Model: Tracing Conceptual Boundaries
STEFANO CIVITARESE MATTEUCCI
EU Citizenship and the Social Market Economy: Shifting Balances
GIACOMO DELLEDONNE
PART II
W(h)ither Social Europe? Labour Rights in a Social Market Economy
MICHAEL DOHERTY
The Social Dimension of EU Public Procurement and The Social Market Economy
CHRISTOPHER BOVIS
Social Considerations in EU Competition Law: The Protection of Competition as a Cornerstone of the Social Market Economy
ANDREAS HEINEMANN
State Aid Law in a Social Market Economy
DELIA FERRI and JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ
Services of General Economic Interest and Social Considerations
JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ
Social Services, Service Providers and Non-Economic Activities in the Realm of the EU 'Social Market Economy'
SILVIA PELLIZZARI
Cross-Border Healthcare and the Social Market Economy
LUCIA BUSATTA and TAMARA HERVEY
Social Considerations in EU Consumer Law: The Legislator, the Court and a Rhapsody in Blue
VANESSA MAK
Towards a More Socially Orientated EU Copyright Law: A Soft Paradigm Shift after Lisbon?
CATERINA SGANGA
The Social Dimension of EU Energy Law
GOKCE METE and RAPHAEL HEFFRON
The Social Dimension of the Common Commercial Policy
VIVIAN KUBE and LUIGI PEDRESCHI
The Social Dimension of EU Investment Law and Policy
SONDRA FACCIO
Conclusion
DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE
INDEX
