Freedom of Establishment of Health Institutions

1 One of the major achievements of the European Union (EU) is the (single or) ‘internal market’, which according to Article 26(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’) comprises ‘an area without internal frontiers’ that covers ‘the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital’. While the free movement of workers concerns long-term employed activities and the freedom of services short-term self-employed activities, the freedom of establishment is about long-term self-employed activities. These person-related freedoms can be...