EU Social Market Economy and the Law
(Englisch)
Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Challenges for the EU

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

Foreword

BRUNO DE WITTE

List of Contributors

Table of Legislation

Table of cases

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