Velluti, Samantha --- "Beyond rhetoric? Social conditionality in the EU’s external trade relations" [2017] ELECD 935; in Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine (eds), "Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 243

Book Title: Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law

Editor(s): Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435736

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: Beyond rhetoric? Social conditionality in the EU’s external trade relations

Author(s): Velluti, Samantha

Number of pages: 20

Abstract/Description:

The European Union (EU) has been increasingly using its strong global commercial leverage to progressively promote and strengthen social rights and labour standards through its external trade relations. The chapter looks at the EU’s law and practice of social conditionality by focusing on the EU’s bilateral and regional trade agreements. It identifies and critically evaluates the legal subjects and objects of the EU’s social conditionality for the purposes of unpacking and understanding the complexities of the EU’s approach to social conditionality. Keywords: European Union; social conditionality; trade agreements; legal subjects and objects of EU law.