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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/948
Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over constitutionalization - Administrating contradictions_1b.pdf
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Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over-constitutionalization: Administrating contradictions


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Authors: Schmidt, Susanne K.  
Abstract: 
The European Union (EU) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court’s jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass procedures. And legislative corrections of the case law are often foreclosed given the EU’s skewed separation of powers and the over-constitutionalization of European law, where crucial policy choices are taken by the Court’s Treaty interpretation. We compare the British and the German approaches and show that ECJ case law impacts through different channels, but triggers similar challenges for national administrations.
Keywords: European Union; Free movement rights; National welfare states; European Court of Justice; Case law; Over-constitutionalization
Issue Date: 24-Mar-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Journal/Edited collection: Public Administration 
Start page: 437
End page: 449
Note: 2
Band: 95
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1467-9299
DOI: 10.26092/elib/948
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib51514
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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