The Voxholm Case – does this show that free movement of services within the European Union is not possible?
am 11.11.2005 von Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit
Free movement of services is one of the most debated issues in the European Union at the moment. It is recognised that this is the area where most of the reforms need to be implemented if the EU wants to move towards the goals set out in the Lisbon Strategy. Even more, liberalising the services market is seen as a necessary precondition for improving the competitiveness of the European Economy. Even more it is also considered to be one of the tools which could help to bring the European economy out of stagnation by providing growth and additional work places.
Where do we stand at the moment? We have Article 49 of the EC Treaty which is supposed to safeguard the free movement of services within the European Union. However, there are many cases which show that it does not work. One has to understand that the services market is of a vital interest for the national states. The concept of providing services cannot be separated from the issue of employment. And employment is one of the cornerstones of most of the social security systems of the old EU Member States. The old EU Member States are allowed to safeguard their employment markets (all of them except the UK, Ireland and Sweden have used the possibility not to open up their markets to workers coming from the new EU Member States – in these cases the free movement of workers provisions of the Treaty do not apply during the transition period). …
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