Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution: A Labour Law Perspective

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE......Page 13
FOREWORD......Page 15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 17
European Court of Justice......Page 19
Court of First Instance......Page 21
United Kingdom......Page 22
Directives......Page 23
Treaties......Page 24
Non-binding instruments......Page 29
United States......Page 30
INTRODUCTION......Page 31
PART I Social policies and market principles. European social integration revisited......Page 35
1. A preliminary review of the historical background......Page 37
2. Metamorphoses of the European economic constitution and their impact on national social policies and rights......Page 45
3. ‘Embedded liberalism’: the original compromise in the ECSC Treaty…......Page 59
4. …in the Ohlin Report…......Page 70
5. …in the Spaak Report…......Page 75
6. …and in the Treaty of Rome......Page 79
7. Crisis and ‘overthrow’ of the original model......Page 86
8. Infiltration of Community competition and market law into national systems of labour and social-security law......Page 91
9. End of monetary sovereignty and curbing of macroeconomic sovereignty in the EMU constitution......Page 95
10. Regulatory competition between national systems within the internal market......Page 103
11. Weakening of the principle of territoriality of national systems of social protection......Page 111
1. The difficult quest for a new balance between negative integration and positive integration of national welfare states......Page 124
2. Social rights and the market in the European constitutional space in fieri: developments up to the Treaty of Amsterdam…......Page 128
3. …and the prospects opened up by the Nice Charter......Page 136
4. European social policy after Amsterdam......Page 144
5. The new strategy of supranational ‘open’ co-ordination of Member States’ employment and social policies......Page 151
6. The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe…......Page 158
7. …The constitutional Treaty and social policy…......Page 160
8. …The constitutional Treaty and the open method of co-ordination…......Page 165
9. …The constitutional Treaty and the advance of fundamental social rights…......Page 170
10. …A summary assessment of the social content of the constitutional Treaty......Page 177
PART II The market, competition and social rights in the European constitutional space......Page 181
1. Introduction......Page 183
2. Community competition and market law and national systems of labour law in the original model......Page 185
3. Crisis of the original model…......Page 195
4. …particularly in the changing interpretation of Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome (now Article 28 TEC)…......Page 197
5. …and of Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty of Rome (now Articles 81, 82 and 86 TEC)......Page 213
6. Two illustrative examples: public job-placement monopolies and national social-security monopolies......Page 227
7. Antidotes to the in.ltration of competition law: (a) Economic freedoms and social rights in the aftermath of the Nice Charter…......Page 235
8. …(b) Constitutional dialogues…......Page 245
9. …(c) Negative integration and social jurisdiction of the Member States......Page 254
1. Introduction......Page 262
2. Rise and decline of the ‘upward’ harmonization model......Page 263
3. The regulatory impasse of the 1980s and its remedies......Page 265
4. Alternatives to the traditional harmonization model......Page 269
5. Collective bargaining as a ‘regulatory resource’ of the Community legal order......Page 272
6. Convergence of national systems of social protection via soft law......Page 274
7. The European Employment Strategy: from the ‘Luxembourg process’ to institutionalization of the open method of co-ordination......Page 275
8. Open co-ordination as a new form of Community economic and social governance......Page 279
9. An analytical comparison of three ideal-typemodels of a European economic constitution......Page 281
10. The neoliberal ‘competitive federalism’ model......Page 284
11. The neo-social-democratic ‘solidaristic federalism’ model......Page 289
12. The mixed ‘co-operative federalism’ model......Page 293
13. A preliminary summing up......Page 299
CONCLUSIONS......Page 304
INDEX......Page 311