Abstract
UK has a reputation as the most consistent opponent of any further social harmonization at the EU level. Certain reactions to the announced Brexit thus voiced the hopes that the way towards a more social Europe could be soon unobstructed.
Recent Commission proposals, like the EU Pillar of Social Rights, really seem to point towards such direction. The goal of the present analysis therefore is to critically assess whether the existing tendencies in secondary law production of the EU, and in case law of the CJEU, confirm the trend towards a more social EU, without the UK.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive Brexit could not and also should not lead to a far-reaching social and labor law unification at the EU level, if the EU wants to be seen as more social-friendly by its citizens.