Social or Highly Competitive? Social Security Measures Under Scrutiny of EU Competition Law

Abstrakt

Paper focuses the issue of clashes between measures and agreements in the field of social security and workers rights on the one side and rules of competiton on the other in the current EU law. Based on CJEU's case law analysis in the pre-Lisbon and then post-Lisbon period it tries to prove that the EU competition law has always been quite accommodating towards sensitive issues of social rights and welfare.

Klíčová slova

• European Union
• competition law
• social welfare
• European Court of Justice