The EU Social Market Economy and the Law

Dr. Delia Ferri is a Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University Department of Law Prof. Dr. Fulvio Cortese is Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento

CONTENTS

Foreword

BRUNO DE WITTE

List of Contributors

Table of Legislation

Table of cases

Introduction

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

PART I








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




The EU Transformation of the Social State
MARCO DANI




Social rights, Social Market Economy, and the European Social Model: Tracing Conceptual Boundaries
STEFANO CIVITARESE MATTEUCCI




EU Citizenship and the Social Market Economy: Shifting Balances
GIACOMO DELLEDONNE

PART II




W(h)ither Social Europe? Labour Rights in a Social Market Economy
MICHAEL DOHERTY




The Social Dimension of EU Public Procurement and The Social Market Economy
CHRISTOPHER BOVIS




Social Considerations in EU Competition Law: The Protection of Competition as a Cornerstone of the Social Market Economy
ANDREAS HEINEMANN




State Aid Law in a Social Market Economy
DELIA FERRI and JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ




Services of General Economic Interest and Social Considerations
JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ




Social Services, Service Providers and Non-Economic Activities in the Realm of the EU ‘Social Market Economy’
SILVIA PELLIZZARI




Cross-Border Healthcare and the Social Market Economy
LUCIA BUSATTA and TAMARA HERVEY




Social Considerations in EU Consumer Law: The Legislator, the Court and a Rhapsody in Blue
VANESSA MAK




Towards a More Socially Orientated EU Copyright Law: A Soft Paradigm Shift after Lisbon?
CATERINA SGANGA




The Social Dimension of EU Energy Law
GOKCE METE and RAPHAEL HEFFRON




The Social Dimension of the Common Commercial Policy
VIVIAN KUBE and LUIGI PEDRESCHI




The Social Dimension of EU Investment Law and Policy



SONDRA FACCIO

Conclusion

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

INDEX