Two charters and a pillar : the slow constitutionalization of social rights in European Law.

by DE WITTE, Bruno

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This chapter retraces the post-enlargement trajectory of the protection of fundamental social rights in Europe. The chapter selects three years that signpost this trajectory: 2000, when the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted, with the inclusion of a social rights chapter; 2009, when the Lisbon Treaty seemed to contain a renewed promise of social progress in the Union; and 2017, when the European Union launched a European Pillar of Social Rights, as part of an effort to revitalize the social protection agenda of the European Union after the disappointing post-Lisbon years.

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Full Title	Two charters and a pillar : the slow constitutionalization of social rights in European Law.
Publication Info	Oxford University Press, 2020
ISBN(s)	9780198864738, 0198864736
General Note	Uladzislau BELAVUSAU and Aleksandra GLISZCZYŃSKA-GRABIAS (eds), Constitutionalism under stress : essays in honour of Wojciech Sadurski, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 191-204.
Summary, etc.	This chapter retraces the post-enlargement trajectory of the protection of fundamental social rights in Europe. The chapter selects three years that signpost this trajectory: 2000, when the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted, with the inclusion of a social rights chapter; 2009, when the Lisbon Treaty seemed to contain a renewed promise of social progress in the Union; and 2017, when the European Union launched a European Pillar of Social Rights, as part of an effort to revitalize the social protection agenda of the European Union after the disappointing post-Lisbon years.
Language Note	en.