The Lisbon Treaty and social Europe / edited by Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher and Isabelle Schömann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruun, Niklas, editor of compilation.

Lörcher, Klaus, editor of compilation.

Schömann, Isabelle, editor of compilation.

European Trade Union Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treaty on European Union (1992)--Protocols, etc., 2007 December 13.

Labor laws and legislation--European Union countries.

Social legislation--European Union countries.

Sociological jurisprudence--European Union countries.

European Union countries--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"On 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force. Although often described as primarily technical, it significantly amended the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and the old EC Treaty (now the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU). The authors' aim in this book is to explore what the Treaty means for social law and social policy at the European level. The first part of the book on the general framework looks - at a time of financial crisis - for new foundations for Europe's Social market economy, questions the balance between fundamental social rights and economic freedoms, analyses the role of the now binding Charter of Fundamental Rights, maps the potential impact of the horizontal clauses on social policy and addresses the possibilities for social partners to enlarge their role in labour law and industrial relations. The second part, on the social framework of the Treaty, focuses on the development of the Union's competences. In it the authors evaluate the consequences of the new general framework on social competences, analyse the evolution of the principle of subsidiarity and its impact in the new Treaty, look at the coordination of economic policies in the light of fundamental rights, and analyse the adoption in the Treaty of a new architecture for services of general interest."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Part I. The general framework or primacy of the social dimension (Principles)

The Lisbon Treaty, the Viking and Laval judgments and the financial crisis / Simon Deakin

Values and objectives / Filip Dorssemont

The Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union / Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky, Klaus Lo̮urcher and Isabelle Schömann

How the horizontal social clause can be made to work / Pascale Vielle

The role of the social partners in the Lisbon Treaty / Bruno Veneziani

Part II. The social framework or substance of the social dimension (Instruments)

Social competences / Klaus Lörcher

The principle of subsidiarity in the Lisbon Treaty / Thomas Blanke

Economic governance of the EU crisis and its social policy implications / Niklas Bruun

Services of general interest and the Treaty of Lisbon / Antoine Jacobs

Conclusions. Concerning the Lisbon Treaty and social Europe

Appendices. Recommendations by the Transnational Trade Union Rights (TTUR) Expert Group to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on the effective application of Article 152 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Notes:

"ETUI."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847319401

1847319408

9781472565990

1472565991

9781283657778

1283657775

9781847319395

1847319394

OCLC:

813536043