 The unexpected consequences of the application of the EU Working Time Directive in FranceFabrice Colomb Chapter 8 in The Sustainability of the European Social Model, 2015, pp 193-205 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: The chapter addresses the question of the extent of the impact of EU law on French law, and vice versa, for a specific area of law, that is, the regulation of working time. We have to understand how the existing French national legal order accommodated the EU Working Time Directive in the early 2000s. In order to achieve this, we put aside any mechanistic model of the dissemination of EU legal norms into the national legal orders in Member States. Taking into account the role of political and cultural-political logics, we analyse the role of social actors in the dynamic of dissemination of new norms. Undoubtedly EU law introduces new references that become internalised in the French national legal system, yet national characteristics endure. This leads to the fact that French political constraints as well as specific demands for legitimation combine and give way to unexpected effects in the evolution of French law, but also in the adaptation of EU law. Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:15070_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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