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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe by Edited by Professor Niklas Bruun Edited by Klaus Loercher Edited by Isabelle Schoemann
As originally conceived the Treaty of Lisbon was to have ushered in a new European Constitution but it failed and was replaced by a modified version which significantly amends the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and the old EC Treaty (now the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The authors aim in this book is to question what the Treaty means for social law and social policy at the European level. Part one looks for new foundations for Europes Social market economy explores the balance between fundamental social rights and economic freedoms questions the role of the Charter of Fundamental Rights analyses the potential impact of the horizontal clauses on social policy and addresses the possibilities for social partners to enlarge their role in labour law and industrial relations. Part two focuses on the development of the Unions competences. In it the authors evaluate the consequences of the new general framework on social competences analyse the evolution of the principle of subsidiarity in the new Treaty look at the coordination of economic policies in the light of fundamental rights and analyse the adoption in the Treaty of a new architecture for services of general interest.