
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2378806
French Abstract: Le droit de l’Union parle plusieurs langues, mais celle qui lui est la plus usuelle est la langue des droits subjectifs. La tendance du droit europeen a produire des droits a un fonction de legitimation depuis les origines de la construction europeenne. Ces droits donnent aux ressortissants des Etats membres la faculte de s’emanciper des formes d’assujettissement liees a l’Etat. Cependant, elle a aussi desormais des effets delegitimants. Nous nous rendons compte a present que la production de droits et d’autonomie est facteur d’individualisme et d’indetermination ; elle conduit a la destabilisation de certains dispositifs de cohesion sociale au sein des Etats membres. Partant de ce constat, cette etude a un double objet. Elle analyse, d’une part, le systeme des droits sur lequel repose le droit de l’Union, ses limites et ses contradictions. D’autre part, elle recherche dans le droit de l’Union des elements susceptibles de remedier a certaines de ces contradictions. Elle s’appuie pour ce faire sur le concept de statut qui est recemment apparu dans la jurisprudence sur la citoyennete de l’Union.English Abstract: A powerful narrative exists in European Union Law that argues that the Union and its main legal actor, the European Court of Justice, have placed the individual at the centre of the European project. The creation of the European individual (worker/consumer/producer/employer...) is largely the result of a legal technique which consists in granting individuals with subjective rights opposable to the Member States. EU legislation and jurisprudence are replete with such rights. In the past two decades, the language of market rights has developed in the grammar and semantic of citizenship rights. This paper is an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of this construction by relying on the concept of status. A concept of status has recently emerged in the case law of the European Court of Justice. The paper argues that, beyond its purely rhetorical value, the concept may be constructed in normative terms so as to offer a new conceptualization of individual autonomy at the EU level. A conception that preserves the emancipatory character of EU law but is more sensitive to the protection of affected interests.
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