Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290427 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
This book examines the potential role of European Union law in combating poverty and social exclusion in the European Union. Anti-poverty strategies have been part of the European Union agenda for decades. Most saliently, over a decade ago, the EU’s Member States pledged to lift 20 million people out of poverty. In spite of this commitment, the EU did not even meet a quarter of this target, and over 113 million people still were at risk of poverty and social exclusion by the end of 2020. This book addresses the incongruence between a quite developed EU policy strategy and a well-embedded legal objective on the one hand, and the lack of direct legal action on the other. Analysing the role of social policy instruments, fundamental rights, and the constitutional framework of the European Union, it makes a detailed case for a contribution of EU law to the policy objective of combating poverty and social exclusion. Drawing on work in law, politics, social policy and economics, this book will interest scholars and policymakers in the areas of EU law, labour and social security, human rights, political science and social and public policy.
Subjects: 
EU Level
European Semester
EU Institution
Member States
EU Social Policy
Fundamental Social Rights
EU Legal Instrument
Social Protection Systems
EU Instrument
Minimum Income Schemes
Headline Target
Reference Budgets
EU Law
In-work Poverty
EU Value
EU Legislator
Minimum Income
Integrated Guidelines
Minimum Income Benefits
EU Primary Law
EU Priority
EU Legal Act
Union's Policy Objective
Generation EU
Implement EU Law
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ISBN: 
978-1-003-22212-5
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book

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