Les résistances à l'Europe néolibérale

interactions, institutions et idées dans le conflit sur la Directive Bolkestein

Crespy Amandine

The dissertation deals with the conflict over the EU Services Directive which is also known as the Bolkestein Directive. The general liberalisation and deregulation of the services markets in the EU has known the greatest politicisation of an EU issue ever seen in the history of European politics. It mobilised a wide range of political actors, including unions, diverse associations and citizen groups in several member states of the EU as well as in Brussels. The Commissioner for the internal market Frits Bolkestein and the directive proposal adopted in January 2004 have come to epitomize the neoliberal face of European integration. Due to its connection with the Eastern enlargement in May 2004 and with the ratification of the European constitutional treaty in France and The Netherlands in 2005, the directive proposal on services liberalization triggered a general debate over the economic and social nature of the EU polity far beyond a mere matter of public policy. After three years of debate and mobilization, the directive proposal was substantially amended in the European Parliament and clear limitations were put to liberalization of the services of general interest and to market deregulation.

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Type Doctoral thesis
Language Fr
Original title Les résistances à l'Europe néolibérale
Original subtitle interactions, institutions et idées dans le conflit sur la Directive Bolkestein
Length 1 v. (466 p.)
Themes
  • Europe as an Area of Economic and Social Regulation
  • Europe as a Community of Norms and Values
Discipline(s)
  • Sciences sociales
  • Science politique générale
Publisher Université libre de Bruxelles
Publication date 2010-03-17
Keywords
  • European federation
  • Free trade -- Europe
  • Neoliberalism -- Europe
  • Construction européenne
  • Libre-échange -- Europe
  • Néo-libéralisme -- Europe
  • Europe -- Economic integration
  • Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989
  • Europe -- Intégration économique
  • Europe -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989
  • résistances
  • Europe
  • conflit
  • services
  • euroscepticism
  • libéralisation
  • Bolkestein
  • liberalisation
  • resistances
  • euroscepticisme
ULB Institutional Reference http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210161