Promoting Solidarity in the European Union

Malcolm Ross has been Professor of European Law at the University of Sussex since 2000. He has written extensively on a range of EU law topics, especially state aid, services of general economic interest and the constitutional jurisprudence of the Court of Justice. He is currently completing a monograph on Solidarity in EU Law, also to be published by OUP. Yuri Borgmann-Prebil holds degrees from the Universities of Cologne, East Anglia and Sussex. He is currently Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex.

• 1. Promoting European Solidarity - Between Rhetoric and Reality? ; 2. Solidarity - A New Constitutional Paradigm for the EU? ; 3. Mission Impossible? Limits and Perils of Institutionalizing Post-National Social Policy ; 4. Solidarity and the Commission's 'Renewed Social Agenda' ; 5. The Price of Letting Courts Value Solidarity: The Judicial Role in Liberalizing Welfare ; 6. When Patients Exit, What Happens to Solidarity? ; 7. EU Environmental Solidarity and the Ecological Consumer: Towards a Republican Citizenship ; 8. Irregular Migrants: Beyond the Limits of Solidarity? ; 9. A Certain Degree of Solidarity? Free Movement of Persons and Access to Social Protection in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice ; 10. Age Discrimination in Law and Policy: How the Equal Treatment Directive Affects National Welfare States ; 11. Promoting the Multi-Pillar Model? The EU and the Development of Funded Pension Schemes ; 12. How to Govern for Solidarity? An Introduction to Policy Learning in the Context of Open Methods of Coordinating Education Policies in the European Union ; 13. Relating Territorial Cohesion, Solidarity, and Spatial Justice

Ross and Borgman-Prebil's book is an excellent starting point...debates on solidarity in European law and legal literature in general, which is to be welcomed in the era of societal, economic and political change.