The EU Constitution of Social Governance in an Economic Crisis: in Defence of a Transnational Dimension to Social Europe

Conventional wisdom has it that the EU is unable to promote viable social integration, which contrasts with its commitments to improving working and living conditions and to social values and goals such as solidarity, social protection and social inclusion. This
article challenges two diff erent standpoints: on the one hand, competitive neoliberalism demands that the EU focuses on economic integration through legally binding internal market and competition rules even if Member States can only maintain a limited commitment to social inclusion, while authors defending the social models unique to the continent of Europe demand that the EU rescinds some of its established legal principles in order to make breathing space for Member States to maintain market correcting social policies. Both positions convene that there should be no genuine social policy at EU level.
This article uses scenarios of widely discussed rulings by the Court of Justice to illustrate that legally enforceable economic integration would prevent most Member States from achieving sustainable health services, labour relations and free university education on the basis of national closure. Since the EU has limited legislative competences to create EU level institutions to balance inequalities, it derives a Constitution of Social Governance from the EU’s values, proposing that the Court of Justice develops its urisprudence into an instrument for challenging European disunion induced by new EU economic governance

Social Services of General Interest: The EU Competence Regime and a Constitution of Social Governance

In discussing the potential role of the EU, the Member States, their composite parts and civil society organisations in establishing social services of general interest at sub-national, national, transnational and EU wide levels, this chapter explores the EU competence regime for social services of general interest. Its analysis contradicts a tendency in academic writing to demand protection of national prerogatives for shaping welfare states against EU intervention at all costs, because this would be counterproductive for the progress of the EU project. It submits that an EU constitution of social governance should create mixed responsibilities so that the EU, states and civil society actors support each other in creating preconditions for social integration in the EU. It uses the field of social services of general interests as an example of applying this general theoretical concept.

A Constitution of Social Governance for the European Union

This chapter considers the EU’s socio-economic constitution under the lens of humaneness. It argues that the EU’s unique socio-economic constitution demands equilibrium of socio-economic integration instead of widening the gap between economic integration at EU levels and social integration at national levels. While the EU lacks the legislative competences to achieve this equilibrium, the constitutional principle still prevails. Indeed, the EU competences reflect its own values as well as the socio-economic constitutions of its constituent Member States. These frequently do not allow for total state-governance of social spheres such as working life, education, care or other social services. Instead, societal actors are given scope to (co-)govern these spheres at national levels. Accordingly, the apparent tension between the EU’s socio-economic values and principles and its limited competences in the social policy field can be resolved through a dynamic interpretation of the EU Treaties towards a “constitution of social governance”. This interpretation reads the Treaties as authorising governance by societal actors. The chapter connects the idea of humanness to the ideals of social governance at EU level and proposes two options for practical application of the concept. These are rules for trans-national labour markets based on European collective labour agreements and a European higher education sector developed by agreements between universities.

A Constitution of Social Governance for the European Union

his chapter considers the EU’s socio-economic constitution under the lens of humaneness. It argues that the EU’s unique socio-economic constitution demands equilibrium of socio-economic integration instead of widening the gap between economic integration at EU levels and social integration at national levels. While the EU lacks the legislative competences to achieve this equilibrium, the constitutional principle still prevails. Indeed, the EU competences reflect its own values as well as the socio-economic constitutions of its constituent Member States. These frequently do not allow for total state-governance of social spheres such as working life, education, care or other social services. Instead, societal actors are given scope to (co-)govern these spheres at national levels. Accordingly, the apparent tension between the EU’s socio-economic values and principles and its limited competences in the social policy field can be resolved through a dynamic interpretation of the EU Treaties towards a “constitution of social governance”. This interpretation reads the Treaties as authorising governance by societal actors. The chapter connects the idea of humanness to the ideals of social governance at EU level and proposes two options for practical application of the concept. These are rules for trans-national labour markets based on European collective labour agreements and a European higher education sector developed by agreements between universities.

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Estudio de la provincia en el modelo territorial colombiano y su perspectiva frente a los desafíos que impone la Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991

El ordenamiento territorial colombiano es débil y sus entidades territoriales carecen de funciones concretas, siendo un obstáculo para alcanzar los fines que la Constitución de 1991 le impuso al Estado colombiano en el contexto de una economía de mercado. En este sentido, en la presente investigación se realiza un estudio sobre la provincia, como nivel de gobierno entre el municipio y el departamento, presentándola como una posibilidad para fortalecer y articular las iniciativas locales, aumentar la participación política y generar economías a escalas en Colombia. En principio, se hace un análisis del ordenamiento territorial colombiano frente al cumplimiento de los fines del Estado; segundo, se realiza un acercamiento conceptual de la Provincia identificando su correlación con entidades similares en países de Europa y América latina; tercero, se hace un recorrido histórico de la Provincia desde la época de la Conquista hasta la actualidad en la realidad colombiana. Y por último, se hace un estudio del rol de las Provincias en una economía abierta como la colombiana.

La Constitución que salvó a Colombia. Una discusión sobre el mito político a la luz de la génesis de la Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991.

La tesis se propone revisar y hacer un aporte a distintas posiciones intelectuales en torno a la categoría de mito político, desde el estudio de la génesis de la Constitución Política de 1991, derivando algunas consecuencias frente a la relación del mito con la secularización y la democracia.

Conceptual Rapprochement and the Analysis of the Historical, Normative and Jurisprudential Treatment of the Rural Workers, as Regards the Need for Special Protection

This article aims to present an approach to the issue of farm or rural zone workers, including a labour law study of agrarian legal decisions, so as to demonstrate their importance in respect to social, economic and cultural rights in Colombia. The study will serve to illustrate through the history, the applicable law and the jurisprudence, the different ways in which farmers have been treated from the time of the origin until the arrival of modern systems of industrialization. It calls into question the effectiveness of existing laws and the role of the courts, in spite of globalization, to maintain the minimum rights and guarantees of farm workers who are considered to be a vulnerable population. In conclusion, this study seeks to illustrate the current role of the Labor law and the National Health Service in the area of demonstrating of the existence or absence of mechanisms to protect workers in rural areas and the need to create some mechanisms that involve social justice given its prime importance in the Constitution of 1991.

La acción pública estatal dirigida a la población con discapacidad privada de la libertad (1991-2013)

El propósito principal de la investigación es determinar los problemas del accionar público estatal dirigido a la población con discapacidad privada de la libertad, a partir de la promulgación de la Constitución Política de 1991 hasta el año 2013. De acuerdo con lo anterior, se quiere demostrar que los problemas del accionar público estatal radican en la emisión de soluciones improvisadas que se han desarrollado frente a las necesidades de la población con discapacidad privada de la libertad. Para ratificarlo, el trabajo se valdrá del institucionalismo normativo así como de la perspectiva de interseccionalidad para analizar de qué manera los problemas del accionar público estatal afectan el ejercicio y la garantía de los derechos de esta población.

Alcances de la legislación colombiana frente a las dinámicas políticas y culturales de reconocimiento de las comunidades musulmanas en Bogotá (1991-2013)

El principal objetivo de esta monografía es determinar cómo la legislación ha incidido en la ampliación de los escenarios de participación en las dinámicas políticas y culturales de las comunidades musulmanas en Bogotá, derivadas de la interacción entre las comunidades minoritarias –para este caso, la comunidad musulmana en Bogotá- y la cultura dominante. Desde la Constitución de 1991, se sentaron las bases para la protección de las minorías religiosas y culturales, es por ello, que se aborda desde la perspectiva de los líderes religiosos los problemas referentes a la integración y el reconocimiento de la comunidad, y los desafíos que representa la normatividad. Para el desarrollo de este propósito, se utilizara la teoría de la esfera pública de Iris Marion Young, y la de identidad de Charles Taylor.

Constitution of teacher identities in Pibid activities

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: " Formaci??n de profesores. Perspectivas de Brasil, Colombia, Espa??a y Portugal"