EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action
Re-Thinking Legal and Factual Barriers in the Internal Market
Published on 26. October 2018
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-78811-345-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ever since its inception, one of the essential tasks of the EU has been to establish the internal market. Despite the impressive body of case law and legislation regarding the internal market, legal and factual barriers still exist for citizens seeking to exercise their full rights under EU law. This book analyses these barriers and proposes ways in which they may be overcome.
Next to analysing the key barriers to exercising economic rights more generally, this book focuses on three areas which represent the applications of the four basic freedoms: consumer rights, the rights of professionals in gaining access to the market, and intellectual property rights in the Digital Single Market. With chapters from leading researchers, the main pathways towards the reduction and removal of these barriers are considered. Taking into account important factors including the global financial crisis, as well as practical barriers, such as multilingualism, the solutions provided in this book present a pathway to enhance cross-border realization of European citizens' access to their economic rights, as well as increasing in the cultural richness of the EU.
EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action is an important book, which will be an essential resource for students of EU citizenship and economics, as well as for EU policymakers and practitioners interested in the field.
Next to analysing the key barriers to exercising economic rights more generally, this book focuses on three areas which represent the applications of the four basic freedoms: consumer rights, the rights of professionals in gaining access to the market, and intellectual property rights in the Digital Single Market. With chapters from leading researchers, the main pathways towards the reduction and removal of these barriers are considered. Taking into account important factors including the global financial crisis, as well as practical barriers, such as multilingualism, the solutions provided in this book present a pathway to enhance cross-border realization of European citizens' access to their economic rights, as well as increasing in the cultural richness of the EU.
EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action is an important book, which will be an essential resource for students of EU citizenship and economics, as well as for EU policymakers and practitioners interested in the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78811-345-8 (9781788113458)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Sybe de Vries, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Elena Ioriatti, Paolo Guarda and Elisabetta Pulice, University of Trento, Italy
Content
Content:
Foreword by Catherine Barnard
Series Preface
PART I EU CITIZENS' ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND BARRIERS TO THEIR EXERCISE: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW
1. General reflections on current threats and challenges to, and opportunities for, the exercise of economic rights by EU citizens
Sybe de Vries
2. European 'equalization' rules and the de facto differentiation in Member States' revenues as a barrier to EU citizens' freedoms
Flavio Guella
PART II THE LEGAL-FACTUAL DICHOTOMY OF BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC FREEDOMS BASED ON THREE CROSS-NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
3. Union citizens and the recognition of professional qualifications: where do we go from here?
Silvia Adamo and Tom Binder
4. Enhancing the protection of digital consumer rights in the European Union: the EU Commission's response to geoblocking and geofiltering
Anne-Marie Van den Bossche and Maria Teresa Solis Santos
5. Intellectual property rights and barriers to EU citizens: copyright in the light of the Digital Single Market
Paolo Guarda
PART III HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE EURO ZONE
6. From economic crisis to identity crisis: the spoliation of EU and national citizenships
Vassilis Hatzopoulos
7. The charter in times of crisis: the empowerment of economic rights
Maribel Gonzalez Pascual
8. Financial crisis and consumers: breaking down barriers to build up new ones?
Raul Ignacio Rodriguez Magdaleno, Irma Martinez Garcia and Silvia Gomez Anson
PART IV HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM PLURILINGUALISM
9. EU legal language and economic rights interpretation in the Member States
Elena Ioriatti
10. Economic Implications of Linguistic Pluralism within the European Union
Margarita Argueelles Velez and Carmen Benavides Gonzalez
11. What comes first, language or work? Linguistic barriers for accessing the labour market
Silvia Adamo
12. The French language system: between protection and obstacles
Celine Lageot
13. EU multilingualism and rivalries of rights: from barriers to plurilingualism
Elisabetta Pulice
Index
Foreword by Catherine Barnard
Series Preface
PART I EU CITIZENS' ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND BARRIERS TO THEIR EXERCISE: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW
1. General reflections on current threats and challenges to, and opportunities for, the exercise of economic rights by EU citizens
Sybe de Vries
2. European 'equalization' rules and the de facto differentiation in Member States' revenues as a barrier to EU citizens' freedoms
Flavio Guella
PART II THE LEGAL-FACTUAL DICHOTOMY OF BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC FREEDOMS BASED ON THREE CROSS-NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
3. Union citizens and the recognition of professional qualifications: where do we go from here?
Silvia Adamo and Tom Binder
4. Enhancing the protection of digital consumer rights in the European Union: the EU Commission's response to geoblocking and geofiltering
Anne-Marie Van den Bossche and Maria Teresa Solis Santos
5. Intellectual property rights and barriers to EU citizens: copyright in the light of the Digital Single Market
Paolo Guarda
PART III HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE EURO ZONE
6. From economic crisis to identity crisis: the spoliation of EU and national citizenships
Vassilis Hatzopoulos
7. The charter in times of crisis: the empowerment of economic rights
Maribel Gonzalez Pascual
8. Financial crisis and consumers: breaking down barriers to build up new ones?
Raul Ignacio Rodriguez Magdaleno, Irma Martinez Garcia and Silvia Gomez Anson
PART IV HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM PLURILINGUALISM
9. EU legal language and economic rights interpretation in the Member States
Elena Ioriatti
10. Economic Implications of Linguistic Pluralism within the European Union
Margarita Argueelles Velez and Carmen Benavides Gonzalez
11. What comes first, language or work? Linguistic barriers for accessing the labour market
Silvia Adamo
12. The French language system: between protection and obstacles
Celine Lageot
13. EU multilingualism and rivalries of rights: from barriers to plurilingualism
Elisabetta Pulice
Index