Social Rights and Economic Objectives: The Importance of Competition at Supra National Level

7 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2010 Last revised: 7 Aug 2010

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Marianne Ojo D Delaney PhD

American Accounting Association; Centre for Innovation and Sustainable Development (CISD); Centre for Innovation and Sustainable Development (CISD)

Date Written: August 7, 2010

Abstract

The need for a supra national model which embraces and provides for social rights of individual Member States is becoming more apparent amidst the ever intensifying integration process within the EU and its involvement in areas which have been undermined by an economic model. This paper considers why, despite such a need for a supra national model, the “ordo liberal European polity” is favoured. It partly does so, by way of reference to two judgements from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) – namely, Laval un Partneri Ltd , and the Viking Cases.

Can competition rules (during and beyond periods of financial crises) be designed and implemented in such a way whereby the facilitation of the aims and objectives of the EU Internal Market are optimally realised? To what extent can such rules be reconciled with the all paramount and more highly prioritised goal of sustaining economic and financial stability? Further, to what extent should competition rules be given due prominence – particularly during chronic periods of financial crises? To what extent should competition be encouraged (where it would result in downward spiral and generate unproductive and detrimental results) : to what extent, therefore, should competition rules (within such a context) be respected? These also constitute further questions which this paper seeks to address.

Keywords: European Law, Integration, Competition, Regulation, Ordo-Liberalism, Social Rights, Economic Objectives, Bank Rescues

Suggested Citation

Ojo D Delaney PhD, Marianne, Social Rights and Economic Objectives: The Importance of Competition at Supra National Level (August 7, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1651610 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1651610

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