This comprehensive second edition Research Handbook discusses a wide range of timely questions and dilemmas ensuing from the present state of European social security law. Presenting a kaleidoscopic concept of social security, a new generation of leading experts identifies future lines of inquiry that are likely to dominate the discourse in the coming years.
Chapters analyse contemporary debates through a range of perspectives, critically examining crucial dimensions of European social security law. These dimensions include social security as a human right, minimum standards, protection of mobile persons, and European social security law in a global context. Through this exploration, new challenges and further lines of research are identified, providing a source of inspiration for the development of this fundamental field of law.
Covering a breadth of topics and research, scholars and academics alike will find this Research Handbook to be an invaluable source of information. Lawyers and policy makers will also benefit from the up-to-date guide to the various fields of European social security.
Contents:
Preface ix
Frans Pennings and Gijsbert Vonk
PART I SOCIAL SECURITY AS A HUMAN RIGHT
1 Social security in the fundamental rights case law of the Court of Justice
2
Eleni De Becker
2 Social security in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights 30
Lieneke Slingenberg and Ingrid Leijten
3 The right to social security and social assistance in the case law and
conclusions of the Social Rights Committee 64
Anja Eleveld and George Katrougalos
4 European human rights protection: towards a multi-level and interdependent
system based on cooperation 84
Ulrich Becker
PART II MINIMUM STANDARDS AND EQUAL TREATMENT
5 Non-discrimination in European social security law: exploring safeguards
against gender and racial discrimination 103
Sarah Ganty and Karin de Vries
6 The further extension of social security to non-wage earners 130
Alberto Barrio
7 Minimum income protection in the European Union: from politics to (soft)
law 149
Ane Aranguiz
8 European Universal Basic Income 168
Malcolm Torry
PART III PROTECTION OF MOBILE PERSONS AND MIGRANTS
9 EU citizenship: a double-edged sword for European social security 182
Dion Kramer
10 The general principles of Regulation 883/2004 and their outer limits 204
Nicolas Rennuy
11 The EU social security rules on posting: defining problems and potential
solutions 225
Frederic De Wispelaere and Ivana Vukorepa
12 Highly mobile workers and the coordination of the applicable social
security law in the European Union: how to create a good fit? 252
Eva van Ooij
13 Coordination rules and new forms of labour and reintegration 266
Saskia Montebovi
14 Occupational pensions and the protection of mobile persons 286
Elmar Schmidt
15 Managing mobile students in the EU: guiding principles and the way forward
301
Alexander Hoogenboom
16 Cross-border healthcare and social security rights 332
Grega Strban
17 Social security rights of third-country nationals coming from outside the
EU: the scope and meaning of equal treatment 353
Pauline Melin
PART IV EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY LAW IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
18 Social security, social protection, GATS and the new generation of EU
trade agreements 380
Nicola Yeates and Herman Voogsgeerd
19 The European Unions approach to social protection for workers in global
value chains 397
Veronika Flegar and Bas Blaauw
20 A missing link in the international social security normative
architecture? 418
Kroum Markov and Maya Stern Plaza
PART V THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
21 The future of European social security law: an analysis of the authors
approaches 439
Frans Pennings and Gijsbert Vonk
Index 453
Edited by Frans Pennings, Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law, Utrecht University and Gijsbert Vonk, Professor of Social Security Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
