La déconstitutionnalisation de l’Europe sociale (2005-2025)
Virtually ignored by the Convention tasked with drafting the Constitutional Treaty, the question of a “social Europe” has nonetheless continued to fuel political, economic, and legal debates over the last two decades, including during the French referendum debate that led to the rejection of this tr...
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2025
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | Virtually ignored by the Convention tasked with drafting the Constitutional Treaty, the question of a “social Europe” has nonetheless continued to fuel political, economic, and legal debates over the last two decades, including during the French referendum debate that led to the rejection of this treaty. Beyond the now-customary rhetoric and calls for “more” social Europe at every European election, the European Union’s “austeritarian” management of the banking, financial, and budgetary crisis has given rise to a much deeper re(appraisal) the European social project. Social rights, despite being enshrined in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, have been sidelined—marginalized both by the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. In response to growing citizen disaffection and threats to European democracy, the Commission introduced the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017 as a political and legal instrument for rebuilding social Europe. This initiative has given an impressive boost to EU social policy in its flagship legislative area: working conditions. This quantitative aspect cannot, however, conceal the fact that social policy is more firmly tethered to the Economic and Monetary Union and instrumentalized in the service of the internal market. According to the critical approach adopted here, the trajectory since the failure of the Constitutional Treaty can be understood as a process of deconstitutionalization of social Europe. |
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