Eu citizens' economic rights in action : re-thinking legal ad factual barriers in the internal market / edited by Sybe deVries, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

DeVries, Sybe, editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary perspectives on EU citizenship.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on EU citizenship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union countries--Economic policy.

European Union countries.

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

Economics--European Union countries.

Economics.

European Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.

Summary:

Ever since its inception, one of the essential tasks of the EU has been to establish the internal market. Despite the impressive body of case law and legislation regarding the internal market, legal and factual barriers still exist for citizens seeking to exercise their full rights under EU law. This book analyses these barriers and proposes ways in which they may be overcome. In addition to analysing the key barriers to exercising economic rights more generally, this book focuses on three areas which represent the applications of the four basic freedoms (movement of goods, persons, services and capital): consumer rights, the rights of professionals in gaining access to the market and intellectual property rights in the Digital Single Market. With chapters from leading researchers, the main pathways towards the reduction and removal of these barriers are considered. Taking into account important factors, including the global financial crisis, and practical barriers, such as multilingualism, the solutions provided in this book present a pathway to enhancing cross-border realization of European citizens' access to their economic rights, while increasing in the cultural richness of the EU. EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action is an important book, which will be an essential resource for students of EU citizenship and economics as well as for EU policy-makers and practitioners interested in the field.

Contents:

Contents: Preface and acknowledgement

1. Democratic empowerment in the EU: an introduction / David Levi-Faur, Nir Kosti and Frans Van Waarden

2. Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment? / Petr Kaniok

3. Political inequality and democratic empowerment in the European Union: The role of the European parliament / Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl and Daniel Gaus

4. The European citizens initiative from comparative perspective / Fernando Mendez, Roman Zwicky and Daniel Kübler

5. The European ombudsman / Marco Inglese and Tom Binder

6. Direct democracy in the European Union: an option for democratic empowerment? / Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín

7. Education for a civic culture / Wieger Bakker, Marlot van der Kolk and Viktor Koska

8. Competition law and the EU democratic deficit / Anna Gerbrandy and Rutger Fransen

9. Regulation by litigation as a form of empowerment / Christoph Struenck

10. How financial market constraints and technocratic decision-making impact on European political citizenship and democracy? / Robert Csehi and Uwe Puetter

11. The financialization of EU citizenship: An alternative to democratic empowerment / Hanan Haber and David Levi-Faur

12. Democratic empowerment and the future of the EU: some lessons from Brexit / Keren Dinur, Nir Kosti, David Levi-Faur and Guy Mor

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78811-346-2