Inequality and the European Union

This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states. By gathering cutting-edge research by specialists of inequalities across Europe, the volume pushes conceptual frontiers as to the EU's role in fighting or fuelling inequalities pertaining to antidiscrimination, mobility and migrations, and the European welfare model. It provides solid empirical insights on the EU policy tools and legal instruments and assesses whether they are effective. This book will be of key interests to scholars, students, and practitioners in EU policymaking, EU law, and more broadly in EU studies, comparative politics, and regionalism. Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Open Access funded by EUqualis Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Chloé Brière is Professor of European Law and Director of the Institut d'Etudes Européennes (IEE) at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Amandine Crespy is Professor of Political Science and EU Studies at CEVIPOL and the Institut d'Etudes Européennes (IEE) at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

1. Inequality in the European Union: Exploring new frontiers PART 1: New frontiers in anti-discrimination 2. A Union of Equality: A Promising Step Forward or a Missed Opportunity to be Truly Intersectional? 3. Revisiting gender-based discrimination in the algorithmic age 4. The European Commission's Changing Response to LGBTI Rights Violations: Suddenly, One Summer PART 2: New frontiers in mobility 5. The Equality-Migration Nexus: Mapping Contradictions of Free Movement and Inequality in the EU 6. Caught between restrictive migration and liberal free movement rules: The case of intra-EU posting of third-country nationals 7. The safe country of origin (SCO) concept: A source of inequality in the treatment of asylum seekers in the EU 8. Schengen visa policy and travel inequalities to the European Union PART 3: New frontiers in socio-economic governance 9. The Place of Inequality and Poverty in the Recovery and Resilience Facility 10. Inequalities and environmental justice in the EU climate transition 11. A Eurozone Reinsurance Union to tackle Inequalities? SURE as a Pathway Through Fiscal Solidarity Hurdles 12. Conclusion: Can the EU (and how) be a force for good in tackling inequalities?