Social Rights and the European Monetary Union

Edited by Maribel González Pascual, Advisor to the Minister on Territorial Politics; Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Aida Torres Pérez, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Contents:

Introduction to Social Rights and the European Monetary Union 1
Maribel González Pascual and Aida Torres Pérez

PART I THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SOCIAL
RIGHTS’ PROTECTION IN THE EU
1 The dimensions of the principle of solidarity in the
European Union 7
Karl-Peter Sommermann
2 Social rights protection in the EU: unlocking the social
content of the EU Charter 25
Maribel González Pascual

PART II THE EMU AS A CHALLENGE FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS
3 The emergence of the new over-riding objective of
financial stability 51
Klaus Tuori and Fernando Losada
4 Social rights and the disintegration of (and through) law
in the Economic and Monetary Union: taking stock and
looking forward 71
Francesco Costamagna and Filippo Croci
5 Towards a meaningful integration of fundamental (social)
rights in EMU governance 97
Paul Dermine
6 The human rights puzzle of the euro-crisis: why massive
breaches of human rights but none of the EU Charter of
Fundamental Rights? 121
Claire Kilpatrick

PART III THE ROLE OF COURTS WITHIN THE EMU
7 The CJEU as guardian of social rights? The legacy of the
European financial crisis 143
Anastasia Poulou
8 The justiciability of ‘social rights’: evidence from
crisis-ridden Greece 162
Lina Papadopoulou and Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat in memoriam
9 The uncertain structure of process-based proportionality
review in the EU: looking back at the debate on
the CJEU’s Weiss ruling and the German Federal
Constitutional Court’s PSPP ruling 187
Oliver Gerstenberg
10 Adjudication of socioeconomic rights by the CJEU:
towards a new form of judicial review? 205
Aida Torres Pérez

Index