Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "highly competitive social market economy", this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art. 3(3) of the Treaty on the European Union, and discusses its actual and potential transformative effect.

CONTENTS

Foreword

BRUNO DE WITTE

List of Contributors

Table of Legislation

Table of cases

Introduction

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

PART I

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   2. The EU Between Market State Ideals and Social Market Economy Objectives: Placing the Social Market Economy within the Union’s Constitutional History
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      CHARLES EDWARD O’SULLIVAN

      
      
      

   4. The EU Transformation of the Social State
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      MARCO DANI

      
      
      

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

      
      
      

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

      
      
      
      
      

      PART II

      
      
      

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

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

       
       
       

   32. The Social Dimension of EU Investment Law and Policy
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SONDRA FACCIO

Conclusion

DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE

INDEX