Naslov
Rules for Rights: European Law, Health Care and Social Citizenship

Autori
Greer, Scott ; Sokol, Tomislav

Izvornik
European Law Journal (1351-5993) 20 (2014); 66-87

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
EU ; European Court ; Integration ; Human Rights

Sažetak
Social citizenship is about equality. The obvious problem for European social citizenship in a very diverse Union is that Member States will not be able or willing to bear the cost of establishing equal rights to health care and similar aspects of social citizenship. Health care is a particularly good case of this tension between EU citizenship and Member State diversity. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) strengthened the right to health care in other Member States, but this cannot create an equal right to health care when Member States are so different. In its efforts to balance a European right, the Court has formulated ‘rules for rights’—not so much European social citizenship rights, as a set of legal principles by which it judges the decisions of the Member States.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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