Abstract
Thanks to the EU citizenship and other EU principles, citizens of the EU member-states may have access to the public services of a member-state they are not citizen of. This access is called transnational access. Taking the example of the transnational access to social security rights, this chapter shows that, to ensure its implementation, the EU created obligations of cooperation between the member-states and backed them by dense and complex cooperation mechanisms including support bodies; hence the expression of ‘administrative machineries’ to qualify these elements. The chapter discusses the scope of the legal obligations of cooperation, together with the frameworks and forms according to which cooperation has to be fulfilled to concretely grant these transnational accesses.
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Lafarge, F. (2018). EU Citizens and Public Services: The Machinery Behind the Principles. In: Ongaro, E., Van Thiel, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_36
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