social reality in the EU conforms to this normative image and what challenges imperil the sustainability of the European …The notion of a European social model assumes that European societies have certain features in common which distinguish … Entscheidungen auf EU-Ebene geraten damit zunehmend in Widerspruch mit nationalstaatlichen Institutionen sowie auch den …

European integration has created a constitutional asymmetry between policies promoting market efficiencies and policies … economic integration, liberalization and competition law, whereas efforts to adopt European social policies are politically … establish constitutional parity with the rules of European economic integration, but which also must be sufficiently …

the EU. In this paper, we look back to these key actions and analyse them in context, in particular to appreciate the …

This Working Paper surveys the extent to which Member States comply with CSRs relating to social policy. This provides …

assumptions that address the role of EU institutions as being minimal in the formation of post-communist social policy, it is … goodness of fit thesis developed by Bouml;rzel and Risse (2000) is analyzed, and other elements that may lead to EU convergence …This paper aims at exploring the relationship between Europeanization, Enlargement and social policy developments in …