The Crisis of State Sovereignty and Social Rights
The European integration process –which may be interpreted as a federalizing process– faces strong cultural and economic resistances. As a matter of fact, social rights have been understood and performed –within an old tradition of political thought– as proximity rights that cannot be universalized...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Jaén
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Age of Human Rights Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/1401 |
| Summary: | The European integration process –which may be interpreted as a federalizing process– faces strong cultural and economic resistances. As a matter of fact, social rights have been understood and performed –within an old tradition of political thought– as proximity rights that cannot be universalized beyond the context of national States; this led to the resistant ideology of the protective function of State borders. Therefore it seems that the construction of the European Union as a complete political subject cannot be developed further if a centralized European Welfare is not created. |
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| ISSN: | 2340-9592 |