1. Social Rights and the European Union Law What are social rights? Are they different from civil/political rights?

2. Traditional line of thought: civil/political rights and social rights have different nature European Convention of Human Rights (1950)  enforceable rights (ECtHR) – State lack of interference is sufficient European Social Charter (1961)  European Committee of Social Rights determining whether or not national law and practice in the States Parties are in conformity with the Charter – Positive obligations of the State

3. Thesis: there is no clear difference between civil and social rigts at EU level I. Vertical harmonisation II. Soft law III. Judicial enforcement

4. I. Vertical harmonization of Social Rights: Anti- discrimination, Labour and Consumer Law access justice rather than access to justice (Micklitz) Enforceable Rights

5. II. Soft Law: Unenforceable Social Rights recognized by the European Charter of Human Rights -Monitoring procedure -Collective complaints -Source of inspiration of secondary legislation and non-binding documents -Diagonal effects

6. III. Enforcement of Social Rights through the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR judgment 15 October 2013, (Ceesay Ceesay v Spain) ECtHR judgment 24 April 2012 (Yordanova and others v Bulgaria)...