Abstract

Starting from a short presentation of the increasing inequality generated by European economic governance and law on freedom of movement, the author furnishes two examples of how European Union could contrast this tendency. The Ryanair case demonstrates that, in order to promote equality and respect the growth and stability pact, the law applicable to employment relationship should be determined applying objective criteria, so that the employer cannot circumvent his obligations. In the case of childcare, the author arguments on the feasible measures that European legislator and European courts could adopt so as to establish binding minimum standards and guarantee social rights.