ABSTRACT
The dramatic results of the 2014 European Parliament elections have highlighted the European Union’s urgent need for a review of the scope and purpose of its social objectives and for a reordering of European priorities.
This book advocates a radical and original alternative to the current philosophy that determines the set of rules for the awarding of EU public procurement contracts. It calls for a reordering of the EU’s economic and social priorities. In doing so, it advocates for a social dimension to be placed at the core of public procurement, which could elicit a social model of integration in the EU in which the European citizen is the key actor. This is achieved through an analytical approach as well as concise and contextualised explanations relating to free trade theories, poverty and public interest theories.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of the European Union, political theory, and EU law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |131 pages
The status quo
chapter |38 pages
Introduction
chapter |23 pages
European integration and the interplay with public procurement
chapter |18 pages
The effectiveness of EU public procurement
chapter |27 pages
Poverty and natural law theory in context
part |57 pages
Closing the gap
chapter |19 pages
Public procurement as the EU's safety valve
part |37 pages
The solution