The European social security law, i.e. the European regulations on the coordination of social security for migrant workers, has been evolving for over 60 years. This book is the result of a dialogue between academia and practitioners in Germany and Greece on practical issues regarding the implementation of the coordination regulations. On the one hand, it reviews the recent case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the interpretation of EU social security law. On the other hand, the book provides accounts of how specific issues are resolved by and between national social security institutions. It explores the exchange of experiences of various administrative authorities, both within and outside the reflection of the ECJ’s existing case law. Furthermore, the discussion on transnational social security rights in the EU and on issues such as the posting of workers or platform work highlight the existing and future—practical—challenges in this field.

Editor Stamatia Devetzi is Professor of Social Security Law at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany. She studied law in Athens, Rome and Osnabrück, holds a diploma in law from the Law Faculty of University of Athens (1994) and a PhD from Osnabrück University (1998). She is member of the advisory board of FNA (Research Institute of the German Pensions Insurance) and of FIS (Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Policy, funded by the German Ministry of Labour. Her previous books include Die Kollisionsnormen des Europäischen Sozialrechts (Duncker & Humblot, 2000), Die offene Methode der Koordinierung und das Europäische Sozialmodell (ibidem, 2009, co-editor with Hans Platzer), Too Sick to Work? (Kluwer, 2011, co-editor with Sara Stendahl) and Social Security in Times of Corona (Sakkoulas, 2021, with Angelos Stergiou). Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, the European Journal of Social Security, the European Journal of Migration and Law, and ZESAR - Zeitschrift für europäisches Sozial- und Arbeitsrecht.