The contribution of European Law to the right of additional social protection

No clear direction has been set by the European authorities regarding complementary social protection law. However, European law still makes a major contribution on the subject. The specialized operators in charge of administrating complementary schemes have been the subject of numerous laws, but not specifically focused on complementary social protection law and not always taking into account the originality of the economic and social model of some of them. The interests of the beneficiaries were more taken into consideration because of the employment law growing position within the European Union than because of the measures adopted on social protection law. Complementary social protection happens to be right at the crossroads of several areas of law, economics and social policy. It is therefore still trying to have its own voice heard in the concert of European law. However, we can hope that a common connecting thread will be more clearly adopted, which will put the company, as the foundation of complementary social protection law, at the heart of debates and reforms. It is indeed within companies, and in Europe, that complementary social protection was born. It would make sense that, two centuries later, European authorities return to the roots of the latter to set a course for the future.