The approach of the different legally social policy determined shaping a new subbranch of social rights, namely social policies law as a multidisciplinary law. The historical roots of the social policies law should be sought in the French social model that has advanced the idea that public...

Despite the fact that social policy remains the province of the member states, the European Commission has outlined a framework for European social policy, the 'Renewed Social Agenda'. This Agenda stands for a genuine EU social policy that complements the Union’s direct influence on welfare...

This article uses the debates of the Working Group ‘Social Europe’ of the European Convention for the Future of the European Union that drafted the Constitutional Treaty to explore the views on the European social model among representatives of the European political class. The debates...

The chapter examines the tensions between welfare states on the one hand and social Europe on the other and colliding principles in their historical setting. In particular, the chapter focuses on Social Services of General Interest (SSGI) as core institutions of the welfare state and the...