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"EU regulation on employment matters grapples with a conceptual dissection, institutionalised by the Treaty. We see an economic conception of 'employment' embodied in the policy objective of high-level employment. The corresponding coordination processes have been integrated under European Economic Governance. The more protective, socio-legal conception of employment has persevered in EU social legislation, viewed as providing a 'floor of rights'. Yet, measures under Title X seem to have been divorced from and overshadowed by the developments in the economic field. The article shows how a disparate evolution of the EU law-policy interrelationship in the economic/employment policy and the social policy spheres has consolidated the dissection of the employment concept. This causes increasing tension in the regulation of employment matters. However, the Treaty is considered as bearing the potential of facilitating a paradigm change that might help to mitigate the tension by building on a mutually reinforcing EU law-policy relationship"

"In the regulation of employment, public authorities face three current problems: non-standard employment, inequality and unemployment. The thesis is interested in how EU level governance addresses these problems given its advanced stage of market and monetary integration. This socio-legal study therefore explores the diverse instruments with which the Union exerts influence on employment regulation in the Member States. Given dramatic changes over the last decade, it assesses what capacity the Union (still) has in the field of EU employment governance. The analysis focuses on the impact of reinforced economic policy coordination. It evaluates whether the joint use of different modes of regulation is as progressive as the competitive-social justice promises the EU's expansive regulatory framework makes on paper. The thesis represents a thought experiment to contribute to the discussion about what role the EU can (and should) play with regard to safeguarding and promoting workers' rights in the context of globalised markets and structural unemployment."