This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
PART I Introduction
1 Social rights, the Welfare State and European austerity
Stefano Civitarese Matteucci and Simon Halliday
PART II European case studies
2 France
Diane Roman
3 Germany
Ulrike Lembke
4 Italy
Alessandra Albanese
5 Spain
Dolores Utrilla
6 UK
Jed Meers
7 Austerity, conditionality and litigation in six European nations
Michael Adler and Lars Inge Terum
PART III Theoretical discussions
8 Should a minimum income be unconditional?
Stuart White
9 The social dimension of fundamental rights in times of crisis
Francesco Ferraro
10 Social rights and welfare reform in times of economic crisis
Jeff King
11 The political economy of European social rights
Emilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni
12 Economic crisis and territorial assymetrical effects on the guarantee of social rights within the European Economic and Monteary Union (EMU)
Francesco Bilancia
13 Free movement of persons and transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU): a melancholic eulogy
Stefano Giubboni
Index
