1. Social democracy and trade unions -- 2. Sweden : social democracy after the divorce? -- 3. Germany : the collapse of a model? -- 4. State, unions, and labourism in Britain -- 5. The persistence of French exceptionalism? -- 6. The 'European social model' : towards a transnational social...

The December judgments of the ECJ in Viking and Laval on the compatibility of national collective labour law with European prerogatives have caused a quite heated critical debate. This paper seeks to put this debate in constitutional perspectives. In its first part it reconstructs in legal...

This paper critically examines the European Union's (EU) trade policy response to the global financial and economic crisis. Contrary to what would be expected, we find that the EU's neoliberal trade paradigm, as frankly presented in the 2006 Global Europe strategy, has not been delegitimized....