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Off Track, Again? EU Citizenship and the Right to Social Assistance

  • The right of EU citizens to equal treatment with nationals of the host Member State in respect of social assistance has been subject to significant changes on several occasions between the Treaty of Maastricht and now. The CJEU has struggled to establish consistent standards prescribing when economically inactive citizens can claim social protection, and in 2014 its tendency to construe this right broadly suddenly came to an end. It backtracked on one-and-a-half decades of case law by ruling that citizens could lay no claim to social assistance unless the respective conditions set out in secondary legislation were met. This article discusses the relevant law and its evolution over the past decades for a twofold aim. (i) First, to clarify in an accessible manner in what respects the law has changed from 1993 to the present. (ii) Second, to articulate a framework that allows us to evaluate the CJEU judgments rendered during this period. This framework departs from established ways of thinking about this evaluative question. Much of the EU citizenship literature evaluates the case law by the outcome it brings about. I will argue, instead, that this evaluation is a matter of comparative institutional choice. Such a comparative institutional assessment shows that disputes over the right of EU citizens to claim social assistance should be decided in line with what the EU legislature intended. It follows that the application of a principle of judicial deference to legislation in the second period of social assistance case law from 2014 onwards was justified.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Martijn van den BrinkORCiD
Editor(s):Marcel Szabó, Laura Gyeney, Petra Lea Láncos
Parent Title (English):Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law
ISSN:2666-2701
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:18
Last Page:36
Related URL:https://www.hungarianyearbook.com/volumes
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5553/HYIEL/266627012023011001003
ISBN:978-90-4730-177-6
Release Date:2023/09/27
Volume:11
Hertie School Research:Jacques Delors Centre
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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