Viking and Laval: Collective Labour Rights and Market Freedoms in the Enlarged EU

Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages 563-580

  Sciarra, Silvana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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EID: 85008192222     PISSN: 15288870     EISSN: 20497636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1528887000001440     Document Type: Article

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