Towards More Resilience for a Social EU - The Constitutionally Conditioned Internal Market

Gap between the EU's normative commitments to socio-economic justice and the practical workings of its integration project - Potential for strengthening the social EU by recourse to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Charter normatively commits EU to a constitutionally conditioned Internal Market - Charter curbs property rights and entrepreneurial freedom specifically for the sake of social rights guarantees - Constructive response to legitimacy dilemmas emerging from cases such as Laval, Viking and AGET Iraklis - Reinstating socially embedded constitutionalism at EU levels as an alternative to relegating social integration to national levels.