Abstract

The Author, after a brief quantitative analysis of the case law of the Luxembourg Court of Justice in the social field takes into consideration two recent cases: the Zuchner case and the Grant case. Given the impossibility of going through the overall Court case law in the social field, the Author prefers to analyse some cases concerning art. 119 of the Treaty. This allows, on one side, to report on the modifications to the treaties as regards the social field conceived in Amsterdam and, on the other side, to describe the delicate political institutional problems faced by the Luxembourg Court of Justice.