Event

Lecture series : European Constitutionalisms, the Social Market Economy, and the Principle of Accommodation

  • Conférencier  Professor Nicola COUNTOURIS, University College London

  • Lieu

    Université du Luxembourg Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences, room BSC 304 162a, Avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg

    LU

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FNR LECTURE SERIES IN EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LABOUR LAW

“The Effectiveness of the European Social Model”

Is the EU’s constitutional envelope spacious enough to accommodate equally democratically legitimate, if (slightly) different, national variations of capitalism, including variants inspired to neo-Keynesian macroeconomic principles and the social democratic tradition? This is the fundamental question that this paper seeks to address, primarily through an analysis of the EU’s Economic and Social Constitutional discourses as emerging from the CJEU’s interpretation of selected areas of EU primary and secondary legislation, and from the EU’s system of economic and monetary governance.

Intuitively this is a question that could be answered positively and without hesitation, merely by observing the range of different social and economic models embodied by the 28 Member States of the EU, let alone by comparing the social and economic outcomes generated by these systems. Surely ‘unity in diversity’ is really what the process of European integration is all about. Or is it?