The right to strike versus fundamental economic freedoms in the english courts, again: hiding behind the “public law taboo” in private international law

The previous case in the English courts concerning the relationship between the right to strike and fundamental economic frseedoms guaranteed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), 1 Viking Line ABP v International Transport Workers Federation , 2 resulted in a reference for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The result- ing CJEU judgment, 3 together with its sister judgment in the Laval case, 4 has shaped fundamentally the way we think about the relationship between the economic and social dimensions of the EU and is at the centrepiece of current debates on EU constitutional law.