EU Law and the Welfare State

This book contains a set of essays which examine different aspects of the impact of European Union law on national welfare state systems. Each chapter looks at a different dimension of the subject: the effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and its provisions on solidarity, equality and citizenship, the impact of internal market freedoms on the right to cross-border health care, the effect of competition law on national public services, and elements of the Lisbon Agenda and its 'open coordination' mechanism on the European Social Model.