The Legal Anatomy of the Social Market Economy. Framing Supplementary Pensions in EU Competition and Internal Market Law KU Leuven
For more than thirty year, the legal relationship between social protection, competition law and the EU internal market has proven to be an uneasy one. In the EU, it was generally assumed that social protection in all its areas, is primarily a State prerogative, whereas competition law focuses on the conduct of private undertakings. One of the most controversial aspects is how the EU economic constitution — in particular the competition and ...