Healthcare and the EU: the Law and Policy Patchwork KU Leuven
© 2010, Cambridge University Press. Introduction: Governments of European welfare states face an uncomfortable predicament. To transfer their welfare-state obligations to the EU level would jeopardize the political basis of their legitimacy. However, since at least the mid-1980s, the processes of European integration, to which those governments are irreversibly committed, have become increasingly pervasive. As a result, European integration ...