Economic and Financial Crisis and Collective Labour Law in Europe

Niklas Bruun is Professor of Law at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. He is the Director of the research programme Regulating Markets and Labour (ReMarkLab), Stockholm University.Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union. Isabelle Schömann is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). They are all members of the Transnational Trade Union Rights (TTUR) Experts Network of the ETUI.

• PART I THE EU’S RESPONSES AND ACTIVITIES1. Changes in the General European Legal Framework Isabelle Schömann2. A New Economic Governance through Secondary Legislation? Analysis and Constitutional Assessment: From New Constitutionalism, via Authoritarian Constitutionalism to Progressive Constitutionalism Lukas Oberndorfer3. Competencies of the Troika: Legal Limitations of the Institutions of the European Union Andreas Fischer-Lescano4. Social Policy, Economic Governance and EMU: Alternatives to Austerity Simon DeakinPART II COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND TRADE UNION RIGHTS IN DANGER5. Austerity Measures, Democracy and Social Policy in the EU Bruno Veneziani6. Collective Action Against Austerity Measures Filip Dorssemont7. Decentralisation of Labour Law Standard Setting and the Financial Crisis Antoine JacobsPART III EVALUATION OF THE EU’S RESPONSES AND ACTIVITIES8. Evaluation of EU Responses to the Crisis with Reference to Primary Legislation (European Union Treaties and Charter of Fundamental Rights) Mélanie Schmitt9. Legal and Judicial International Avenues: The ILO Niklas Bruun10. Legal and Judicial International Avenues: The (Revised) European Social Charter Klaus Lörcher11. International Litigation Possibilities in European Collective Labour Law: ECHR Keith Ewing and John Hendy QCPART IV CONCLUSIONSConclusions Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher, Isabelle Schömann