The Crisis of State Sovereignty and Social Rights

• STAIANO, SANDRO ^[1]
  1. [1] Professor of Constitutional Law. Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Localización: The Age of Human Rights Journal, ISSN-e 2340-9592, ISSN-e 2340-9592, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 25-45
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The European integration process –which may be interpreted as a federalizing process– faces strong cultural and economic resistances. As a matter of fact, social rights have been understood and performed –within an old tradition of political thought– as proximity rights that cannot be universalized beyond the context of national States; this led to the resistant ideology of the protective function of State borders. Therefore it seems that the construction of the European Union as a complete political subject cannot be developed further if a centralized European Welfare is not created.