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Benefit tourism as a problematic aspect in the EU
Pozorová, Danica ; Kunertová, Tereza (advisor) ; Král, Richard (referee)
Benefit tourism as a problematic aspect in the EU Benefit tourism is a topic which has gotten quite a lot of media attention lately, has influenced the lives of mobile EU citizens as well as the EU itself in connection with the brexit. The aim of this thesis is to provide the reader with a comprehensive portrait of the topic, and to explore how is this phenomenon reflected in the case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU. In addition to dealing with the political context and the notion of benefit tourism, this thesis explores the free movement of persons based on both, the economic and the non-economic basis. The focus of the thesis lays on the case-law of CJEU relative to the access of economically inactive EU citizens to the social assistance systems of the host Member States, particularly the judicial chain Brey - Dano - Alimanovic - García-Nieto. These judgments are revolutionary in a way, because for the first time, the Court took into account also the "public finances" argument which has been raised by the Member States for years and the CJEU has always been adamant on rejecting it in favour of wider interpretation of social rights. The CJEU abandoned its previous stands on the financial solidarity, equal treatment and the extension of EU citizens' rights of socially inactive EU citizens and...
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