Based on a conference held in Cambridge on June 13-14, 2003.

'Capability' concept and the evolution of European social policy /Simon Deakin -- Euro and the welfare state / Mića Panić -- Privatisation of social welfare: European Union competition law rules / John Temple Lang -- Aims, effects and justifications : EC state aid law and its impact on national social policies / Andrea Biondi & Luca Rubini -- Healthcare as an economic service under EC law / Panos Koutrakos -- Community competence to regulate medical services / Derrick Wyatt -- Impact of European Union law on English healthcare law / Jonathan Montgomery -- EU citizenship and the principle of solidarity / Catherine Barnard -- 'Wish you weren't here--' new models of social solidarity in the European Union / Michael Dougan & Eleanor Spaventa -- EU law and education : promotion of student mobility versus protection of education systems / Anne Pieter van der Mei -- Inclusion and exclusion of persons and benefitsin the new co-ordination regulation / Frans Pennings -- Between a rock and a soft place : internal market versus open co-ordination in EU social welfare law / Nick Bernard.