The EU Legal Framework of Social Inclusion and Social Protection: Between the Lisbon Strategy and the Lisbon Treaty

1. Introduction 41 2. Social inclusion and social protection under the Lisbon Strategy 43 2.1. Social Europe under the Lisbon Strategy 43 2.2. The OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection – empirical strengths and weaknesses 45 2.3. Social inclusion and social protection under the renewed ‘Lisbon 2020’ Strategy 47 2.4. Lisbon and the law – an opportunity missed? 50 3. The Lisbon Treaty: new legal tools for European social inclusion and protection? 52 3.1. The ‘Other Lisbon’ 52 3.2. New Treaty objectives – but without new policy competences 54 3.3. A new Treaty regime for social services? 57 3.4. The social protection rights in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights 62 4. From Lisbon to Lisbon: a strategy and a treaty compared 6