1st Edition

Inequality and the European Union New Frontiers in Political Science and Law

Edited By Chloé Brière, Amandine Crespy Copyright 2025
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Inequality in the European Union: exploring new frontiers

Emmanuelle Bribosia

PART 1: New Frontiers In Anti-Discrimination

2. A Union of Equality: a promising step forward or a missed opportunity to be truly intersectional?

Serena D'Agostino

3. Revisiting gender-based discrimination in the algorithmic age

Fabian Lütz

4. The European Commission’s changing response to LGBTIQ rights violations: suddenly, one summer

Martijn Mos

PART 2: New Frontiers In Mobility

5. The equality-migration nexus:  mapping contradictions of free movement and inequality in the EU

Dominic Afscharian and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

6. Caught between restrictive migration and liberal free movement rules: the case of intra-EU posting of third-country nationals

Anita Heindlmaier, Josephine Assmus, and Susanne K. Schmidt

7. The safe country of origin (SCO) concept: a source of inequality in the treatment of asylum seekers in the EU

Gaia Romeo

8. Schengen visa policy and travel inequalities to the European Union

Juliette Dupont  

PART 3: New Frontiers In Socio-Economic Governance

9. The place of inequality and poverty in the Recovery and Resilience Facility

Louise Fromont

10. Inequalities and environmental justice in the EU climate transition

Chiara Armeni

11. A Eurozone Reinsurance Union to tackle inequality? SURE as a pathway through fiscal solidarity hurdles

Robin Huguenot-Noël and Francesco Corti  

12. New frontiers in inequality: key findings and future challenges for EU policy making and scholarship

Chloé Brière and Amandine Crespy

Biography

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.