Can it be argued that there exists a concept of Nordic citizenship, founded on inter-Nordic cooperation and its relationship with EU law and EEA law? Researchers from all five Nordic States (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) explore the tensions, gaps, and overlaps arising from the interplay of EU citizenship, EEA law, and the Nordic initiatives that aim to facilitate cross-border mobility of persons in the region. The analysis takes a dual approach. Firstly, it tracks the legal development of nationality law in Nordic states. Secondly, it sets out the rights of residence and access to social rights that follow from the three different regimes. It asks if the Nordic States, through their regional cooperation, are 'going beyond' EU free movement law, making naturalisation to a citizenship in a Nordic state particularly attractive. This important new work gives a unique perspective on EU citizenship and free movement law.

From a standpoint of fundamental rights, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) can be considered as having taken a restrictive approach to social security ever since it ruled in case C-333/13, Dano. The ECJ ruled that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union does not apply because Regulation 883/2004 only coordinates member states' social security systems. This has since been raised by national courts in seven further preliminary rulings: case C-647/13, Melchior; case C-408/14, Wojciechowski; case C-284/15, M; case C-89/16, Szoja; case C-447/18, UB; case C-243/19, A; and case C-243/19, CG. In the light of these rulings, this article provides an analysis of social security from a rights perspective. This includes considering and analysing the inherent limitations of the Charter in view of the principle of conferral. The author asks: the Charter and social security rights - time to stand and deliver? If so: deliver what? If not: why not?

Across the Member States of EU in recent years, governments have sought more and more to protect their national welfare systems. Against this we have the free movement of economically inactive union citizens, which follows both from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and from Directive 2004/38. These conflicting interests have been at centre in the cases Brey, Dano, Alimanovic, Garc√≠a-Nieto, Commission v UK and most recently Job-center Krefeld. In its rulings in these cases, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), trimming its sails to the cold political wind that now blows, has called for a retreat from the for-merly generous case law on economically inactive Union citizens. This retreat has, however, affected not just the outer limits of Union citizenship, but also the future role of the coordination of the social security systems of the Member States. 

Denna författningssamling innehåller grundläggande Europeisk lagtext som används på kursen i Europarätt vid Juridiska Institutionen, Stockholms universitet, d.v.s. EU:s Unionsfördrag, Funktionsfördrag och Rättighetsstadga samt Europakonventionen. Författningssamlingen innehåller också de grundläggande statsrättsliga författningar som används i kursen i Statsrätt, d.v.s., våra fyra grundlagar, riksdagsordningen samt författningar som kompletterar eller ansluter till dessa författningar. Samlingen är primärt avsedd för kurser i europarätt och statsrätt på universitetsnivå, särskilt med avseende på Europarätt och Statsrätt vid Juridiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, men kan givetvis också utgöra ett hjälpmedel för yrkesverksamma jurister och andra som kommer i kontakt med europarättsliga och statsrättsliga frågor

This article begins with an overview of the structure of local governance in Sweden. It then examines the division of competences between municipalities and county councils, and the population register that determines the applicable law. Following this, the article focuses on health care schemes and the possibility for the competent county council to determine substantive health care. The municipalities' responsibility for long term social care is then considered. Finally, the municipalities' room for manoeuvre in relation to the social assistance scheme is reviewed. The concluding section discusses Sweden's decentralised approach to social security.