Überwiegend soft law – Instrumente und Grenzen europäischen Bildungsrechts

The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the method of the open coordination indeed considerable and increasing pressure can be put upon national politics.