Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe

Edited by Ann-Christine Hartzén, Postdoctoral Fellow in Labour Law, Department of Business Law, Lund University, Andrea Iossa, Senior Lecturer in Labour Law, Faculty of Business, Kristianstad University and Eleni Karageorgiou, Ragnar Söderberg Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden

‘The book Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe discusses important and timely issues connected to EU social law, constitutional tensions, and solidarity. The book includes chapters interesting for the researchers, students, and practitioners dealing with EU labour and social law, constitutional law, and the values of the EU at a more theoretical level.’

• Contents:Foreword by Jörgen Hettne xAcknowledgements xiiiIntroduction to Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe xivAnn-Christine Hartzén, Andrea Iossa and Eleni KarageorgiouPART I SOCIAL RIGHTS, LABOUR LAW ANDCOLLECTIVE BARGAINING1 Addressing ‘social dumping’ and ‘unfair competition’ – ananalysis of EU pillar initiatives from a sustainability perspective 2Tonia Novitz2 Posting from a letterbox: transnational mobility ofworkers, social dumping and the economic fundamentalfreedoms’ veil 22Antonio Lo Faro3 Some observations on the EPSU case: a bad judgment fordemocracy and subsidiarity, alias a textbook example ofnot promoting the European Social Dialogue 43Filip Dorssemont4 EU economic governance: a tool to promote or threatensocial rights? The example of the right to collective bargaining 62Pieter Pecinovsky5 The Swedish model of labour market regulation and theEU: is there room for national characteristics in today’sconstitutional framework? 82Caroline JohanssonPART II MOBILITY, BREXIT AND THE QUESTIONOF SOLIDARITY6 Strong economic rights, weak political rights in the EU:a constitutional cacophony 104Antonios Kouroutakis7 The solidarity constitution in the EU: refugees and asylumas litmus test 117Joxerramon Bengoetxea8 European dys-integration, popular disillusionment andBrexit: could ‘substantive constitutionalisation’ help winback minds and hearts? 136Fotis Vergis9 Dignity- and reciprocity-based solidarity as the normativeframework of the EU’s constitutional settlement 158Sacha GarbenSelect bibliography 182Index