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The Constitutional (Im)balance between ‘the Market’ and ‘the Social’ in the European Union
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An assessment of the balance between "the market" and "the social" by reference to the areas of social policy, the internal market and economic governance is given in this article, where the authors propose to address the imbalance by reinforcing the role of the EU legislative process and limiting other forms of European integration.Abstract:
An assessment of the balance between ‘the market’ and ‘the social’ by reference to the areas of social policy, the internal market and economic governance – Imbalance resulting from a consitutional displacement of the legislative process (EU and national) and instead decision-making by the judiciary and the executive – Proposals to address the imbalance by reinforcing the role of the EU legislative process and limiting other forms of European integration.read more
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Human Rights in the Council of Europe and the European Union: Achievements, Trends and Challenges
TL;DR: The main achievements of relevant institutions include securing minimum standards across the continent as they deal with increasing expansion, complexity, multidimensionality, and interpenetration of their human rights activities as discussed by the authors.
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The European Pillar of Social Rights: An Assessment of its Meaning and Significance
TL;DR: The European Pillar of Social Rights as mentioned in this paper is a high-profile political reaffirmation of twenty social rights and principles, and its implementation deploys the full EU governance arsenal: regulations, directives, recommendations, communications, new institutions, funding actions, and country-specific recommendations.
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EU Employment Law and the European Social Model: The Past, the Present and the Future
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the European social model is facing unprecedented challenges, caused in part by the EU's response to the crisis but more generally resulting from a growing hostility towards the European Union project as a whole, and that there is a continued role for the European Social model and its employment dimension in particular.
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European Variations as a Key to Cooperation
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Towards More Resilience for a Social EU - the Constitutionally Conditioned Internal Market
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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik
Andreas Follesdal,Simon Hix +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that a democratic polity requires contestation for political leadership and over policy, which is an essential element of even the 'thinnest' theories of democracy, yet is conspicuously absent in the EU.
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The European Social Model: Coping with the Challenges of Diversity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss two options, closer co-operation and a combination of differentiated "framework directives" with the open method of co-ordination, to overcome the constitutional asymmetry between market efficiencies and policies promoting social protection and equality.
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Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the EU's legitimacy is mainly defined by output effectiveness for the people and input participation by the people, and they define and discuss this third normative criterion as well as the interaction effects of all three normative criteria.
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In Defence of the 'Democratic Deficit': Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union*
TL;DR: The EU's appearance of exceptional insulation reflects the subset of functions it performs as mentioned in this paper, such as central banking, constitutional adjudication, civil prosecution, economic diplomacy, and technical administration.
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Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union
TL;DR: The EU's appearance of exceptional insulation reflects the subset of functions it performs - central banking, constitutional adjudication, civil prosecution, economic diplomacy and technical administration - for normatively justifiable reasons as mentioned in this paper.