The Trend Towards the European Deregulation of Professions and its Impact on Portugal Under Crisis

Julia Evetts, University of Nottingham, UK. João Freire, ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Noémia Lopes, High Institute of Health Sciences Egas Moniz, Portugal. Vital Moreira, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Luísa Oliveira, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Stanislav Toshkov, European Parliament. Luísa Veloso, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

1. European Patterns of Professional Regulation: National and International Theorizing; Julia Evetts 2. The (de)regulation of the liberal professions in the European Union; Vital Moreira and Stanislav Toshkov 3. Professional regulation: Portuguese occupational group trends running counter to EU policies; Raquel Rego 4. Deontological and methodological research questions in Portuguese sociology of professions; Luísa Veloso, João Freire, Luísa Oliveira and Noémia Lopes