This collection of essays addresses a topical subject of current importance, namely the impact of the EU on national welfare state systems. The volume aims to question the perception that matters of social welfare remain for Member States of the EU to decide, and that the EU's influence in this field is minor or incidental.

Gráinne de Búrca has been professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute since 1998. Prior to that she was a lecturer in law at Oxford University and fellow of Somerville College from 1990 to 1998. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Toronto, Michigan, and Columbia, and at NYU. Her field of expertise is broadly in EU law, with particular focus on constitutional issues of European integration, EU human rights policy and European and transnational governance. She is co-director of the EUI's Academy of European Law and series co-editor of two OUP book series: Oxford Studies in European Law, and the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. She is co-author with Paul Craig of the textbook EU Law, currently in its third edition.

• 1: Gráinne de Búrca: Towards European Welfare?


• 2: Maurizio Ferrera: Towards an 'Open' Social Citizenship? The New Boundaries of Welfare in the European Union


• 3: Síofra O'Leary: Solidarity and Citizenship Rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union


• 4: Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen: Social Security Regulation in the EU: The De-Territorialization of Welfare?


• 5: Vassilis Hatzopoulos: Health Law and Policy: The Impact of the EU


• 6: Julio Baquero Cruz: Beyond Competition: Services of General Interest and European Community Law


• 7: Jonathan Zeitlin: Social Europe and Experimentalist Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?