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Employment Protection and State Aid
I. Introduction The failure of the Constitutional Treaty as well as the turbulences prior to the ultimate coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty have given fresh impetus to the discussion concerning the social dimension of the European Union. This widespread euroscepticism is often attributed to the EU’s claimed inability to convince European citizens of its willingness to decisively pursue social objectives. It is widely presumed that the EU institut