Інституціоналізація європейської соціальної політики з точки зору неофункционализму.

Abstract

The subject of the article is the institutionalization of European social policy from the perspective of neo-functionalism – a theory which from the 1950s aspires to a comprehensive explanation of the process of European integration. The institutionalization process of the European Union's sectoral policy is a process of acquiring the power by EU to shape a given policy. Its purpose is to create a set of legal norms and institutions that transfer partial or full competence to undertake regulatory actions to the EU bodies from the EU level (definition of policy objectives, establishment of instruments, means and methods of its implementation, implementation of specific tasks, policy evaluation, etc.).The article discusses the legal foundations of European social policy written in the treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957). The increase in EC / EU regulatory competence in the area of social affairs that has been taking place since that time is interpreted by using a functional, political and cultivated spillover mechanism and the thesis on the European socialization of the elites, which are the axis of the neo-functional integration theory. Institutional and legal analysis is used to verify the adopted research assumptions.