Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Internal Market versus Open Co-ordination in EU Social Welfare Law

Social Welfare and EU Law

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 261-286

  Bernard, Nick ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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