This volume examines the state of Social Europe as it manifests itself when European Union (EU) principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states while the EU legitimacy crisis and Great Recession prevail. The volume explores diverse processes, stages and subjects of...

Recent jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) marks a striking shift towards a more restrictive interpretation of EU citizens' rights. The Court's turnaround is not only highly relevant for practical debates about ‘Social Europe' or ‘welfare migration', but also enlightening...

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...

In various aspects health care constitutes a less likely or critical case of both European integration and Europeanization (Eckstein 1975). As set out explicitly in the Treaty, the organization of health care is the responsibility of the Member States (art. 168 (7) of the Lisbon Treaty,...

Although the European Union (EU) has not formally been assigned welfare policy competence, it has for decades regulated social benefits between the Member States. The social rights and obligations of the European migrant have for long been safeguarded by the EU, and the mutual responsibility for...

This article examines the process through which a European healthcare dimension has been established and which has gradually extended the rights of European patients to cross-border healthcare. The integrative course has been charted by the legal activism of the European Court of Justice,...

This paper examines the institutional output and preliminary outcome of the European Union (EU) Patients' Rights Directive in two healthcare models: the Beveridge and Bismarcian models in Denmark and Bulgaria, respectively. The study applies a most dissimilar system design to explain a similar...