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that was already proposed by economists.
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These measures could also increase the
critically vanishing EU legitimacy in the eyes of Europeans as a small part of their
welfare would be organized and secured by the EU itself.
Thus, although it is the CJEU who is now blamed for limiting rights derived
directly from EU-citizenship, the ball is now in the politicians’ court as they want
to intervene in the nature of integration much more than the CJEU ever did in its
decisions. Hopefully the CJEU’s new approach in the decisions
Dano, Alimanovic
and García-Nieto
was only a tactical retreat that would be followed by a principled
defense of the rights of EU workers, which will force the Member States to solve
the present problems of their national welfare systems more creatively than they are
currently proposing.
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LUKÁŠ KADIDLO, LUBOR LACINA, ‘Why Would Eurozone Need an Own Budget?’ [2015]
Policy Paper Series of Mendel European Centre
. Vol. 6 (4/2015), 13.