Shaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?

'Since the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, public authorities in the European Union (EU) operate within a social market economy. This socioeconomic model inherently contains an initial promise that social objectives – in addition to economic objectives – have an important role to pla...

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Autores principales: Anna Gerbrandy, Willem Janssen, Lyndsey Thomsin
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ff2846361d9541d38425994ef075e7442021-11-08T08:17:04ZShaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?1871-515X10.18352/ulr.509https://doaj.org/article/ff2846361d9541d38425994ef075e7442019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.utrechtlawreview.org/articles/509https://doaj.org/toc/1871-515X'Since the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, public authorities in the European Union (EU) operate within a social market economy. This socioeconomic model inherently contains an initial promise that social objectives – in addition to economic objectives – have an important role to play in creating this context. Whilst aiming to contribute to social objectives and, thus, shape their part of this economy, public authorities are frequently faced with the possibilities and the often emphasised limitations of public economic law, which most prominently includes EU public procurement law, EU state aid law and EU competition law. This contribution considers the legal tensions that can arise when these authorities aim to pursue social objectives within the remit of these fields of law. Based on the areas of sustainability and employment, it argues that public economic law contains various suitable instruments for the pursuit of these objectives, but also that differences still exist between how a balance is struck between the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’, thereby creating obstacles for public authorities and their social agenda.'Anna GerbrandyWillem JanssenLyndsey ThomsinUtrecht University School of Lawarticlesocial market economysocial objectiveseconomic objectivessocial deficitpublic procurement lawcompetition lawstate aid lawLaw in general. Comparative and uniform law. JurisprudenceK1-7720ENUtrecht Law Review, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 32-46 (2019)
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topic social market economy
social objectives
economic objectives
social deficit
public procurement law
competition law
state aid law
Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
K1-7720
spellingShingle social market economy
social objectives
economic objectives
social deficit
public procurement law
competition law
state aid law
Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
K1-7720
Anna Gerbrandy
Willem Janssen
Lyndsey Thomsin
Shaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?
description 'Since the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, public authorities in the European Union (EU) operate within a social market economy. This socioeconomic model inherently contains an initial promise that social objectives – in addition to economic objectives – have an important role to play in creating this context. Whilst aiming to contribute to social objectives and, thus, shape their part of this economy, public authorities are frequently faced with the possibilities and the often emphasised limitations of public economic law, which most prominently includes EU public procurement law, EU state aid law and EU competition law. This contribution considers the legal tensions that can arise when these authorities aim to pursue social objectives within the remit of these fields of law. Based on the areas of sustainability and employment, it argues that public economic law contains various suitable instruments for the pursuit of these objectives, but also that differences still exist between how a balance is struck between the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’, thereby creating obstacles for public authorities and their social agenda.'
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Lyndsey Thomsin
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Lyndsey Thomsin
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title Shaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?
title_short Shaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?
title_full Shaping the Social Market Economy After the Lisbon Treaty: How ‘Social’ is Public Economic Law?
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