Short 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.

Long 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.

Table of Contents:

CONTENTS

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BRUNO DE WITTE

Introduction

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

PART I

1. 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









2. The EU Transformation of the Social State







MARCO DANI









3. Social rights, Social Market Economy, and the European Social Model: Tracing Conceptual Boundaries







STEFANO CIVITARESE MATTEUCCI









4. EU Citizenship and the Social Market Economy: Shifting Balances







GIACOMO DELLEDONNE








PART II









5. W(h)ither Social Europe? Labour Rights in a Social Market Economy







MICHAEL DOHERTY









6. The Social Dimension of EU Public Procurement and The Social Market Economy







CHRISTOPHER BOVIS









7. Social Considerations in EU Competition Law: The Protection of Competition as a Cornerstone of the Social Market Economy







ANDREAS HEINEMANN









8. State Aid Law in a Social Market Economy







DELIA FERRI and JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ









9. Services of General Economic Interest and Social Considerations







JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ









10. Social Services, Service Providers and Non-Economic Activities in the Realm of the EU ?Social Market Economy?







SILVIA PELLIZZARI









11. Cross-Border Healthcare and the Social Market Economy







LUCIA BUSATTA and TAMARA HERVEY









12. Social Considerations in EU Consumer Law: The Legislator, the Court and a Rhapsody in Blue







VANESSA MAK









13. Towards a More Socially Orientated EU Copyright Law: A Soft Paradigm Shift after Lisbon?







CATERINA SGANGA









14. The Social Dimension of EU Energy Law







GOKCE METE and RAPHAEL HEFFRON









15. The Social Dimension of the Common Commercial Policy







VIVIAN KUBE and LUIGI PEDRESCHI









16. The Social Dimension of EU Investment Law and Policy

SONDRA FACCIO

Conclusion

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

INDEX