Social Protection and Social Rights between Threats and Opportunities: European Law as the Roman God Janus

Protection sociale et droits sociaux entre menaces et opportunités: le droit européen comme dieu Janus

Jean-Claude Barbier () and Fabrice Colomb ()
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Jean-Claude Barbier: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fabrice Colomb: CPN - Centre Pierre Naville - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne

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Abstract: In terms of social policies and services, of labour law and social protection, the allocation of competences has hardly changed since the initial European Community Treaty in 1957. Nonetheless, over the years, the impact of European legal economic freedoms has continued to grow. Its influence on labour legislation and social protection collective arrangements is increasingly highlighted by the caselaw of the Court of Justice. Social services actors in older member-countries are more and more aware of this trend and many of them are worried, particularly in associations. On the other hand, the latter welcome the progress achieved in terms of individual rights due to the will and determination of EMU laws. Hence, the Union's legislation appears double-faced as the ancient god Janus.

Keywords: protection sociale; Europe sociale; droits sociaux; ordre juridique européen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Revue française des affaires sociales, 2012, 1, pp.16-41. ⟨10.3917/rfas.121.0016⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rfas.121.0016

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