Garnier, Sophie

An overview of social Europe - 2019.


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Of the various legal instruments in use worldwide and across Europe, European Union law is, in many ways, an original source of rights for workers and, most importantly, the most extensive corpus of supranational norms in the social field. The article seeks to lay out the groundwork for a legal and critical approach to social Europe by looking at recent developments to explore whether European Union social law is indeed now in the service of a social Europe.