Citizenship, Nationality and Access to Public Service Employment

The principle of free movement of workers within the European Union is of great importance to the functioning of the internal market. As a result, exceptions to the fundamental principles of the European Union are kept to a minimum and are interpreted narrowly. One of the exceptions to the free movement of workers is the so-called public service' exception, which is laid down in Article 39 (4) (ex Article 48 (4)) of the EC Treaty. The main object of this book is to analyse this exception, both a