Common Market Law Review

Access to Social Benefits for Union Citizens

The free movement of Union citizens who do not work has become a controversial topic in various European countries. The restrictive Dano judgment of the Court of Justice received much attention, but it did not resolve conceptual and doctrinal tensions at the heart of the case law, which Daniel Thym discusses in his contribution “The Elusive Limits of Solidarity” in the recent issue of the Common Market Law Review. The article demonstrates how to navigate through a complex and controversial area of the law.