The Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe
On 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force. Although often described as primarily technical, it significantly amended the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and the old EC Treaty (now the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU). The authors'' aim in this book...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Prelims; Foreword; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I. The General Framework or Primacy of the Social Dimension (Principles)_; 1. The Lisbon Treaty, the Viking and Laval Judgments and the Financial Crisis: In Search of New Foundations for Europe''s ''Social Market Economy''; 2. Values and Objectives; 3. The Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; 4. How the Horizontal Social Clause can be made to Work: The Lessons of Gender Mainstreaming; 5. The Role of the Social Partners in the Lisbon Treaty
- Part II. The Social Framework or Substance of the Social Dimension (Instruments)6. Social Competences; 7. The Principle of Subsidiarity in the Lisbon Treaty; 8. Economic Governance of the EU Crisis and its Social Policy Implications; 9. Services of General Interest and the Treaty of Lisbon; Conclusions concerning the Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe: A Complex Relationship that has only just started to Evolve