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Ane Aranguiz, Francesco Corti
The European Pillar of Social Rights revamped the debate on Social Europe, simultaneously spar-king conversations about a European social citizenship, although this remains negatively conceivedas primarily reserved for (active) mobile citizens. We argue that the current approach to Europeansocial citizenship is biased by a justiciability axiom, which displays a disappointing social scene atthe EU. Whereas we do not disagree with this, we argue that an important bulk of what makesrights ‘rights’ is being overlooked: instrumental resources that act as facilitators for accessingsocial entitlements. We illustrate this point with two examples: the European Equality Bodies andthe European Labour Authority. We find that the EU plays a greater role than often accountedfor in ensuring that social rights are accessible. While these channels alone are not sufficient for afully-fledged social citizenship, they can still play an important role in the construction of SocialEurope
