In the present paper two pairs of terms and notions are discussed as for their benefit to syntactic studies. The notions of coordination and subordination with their counterparts the parataxis and hypotaxis are studied in relation to the domain of the linguistic meaning and to the domain of language form, respectively. The asymmetry between them is studied on selected data of Czech. Czech constructions classified in Czech syntactic handbooks as hypotactical forms of coordination are analyzed. In the syntactic structure of Otec s matkou odjeli do lázní [Father with mother went to the spa] the possible plural agreement of the predicate demonstrates a hypotactical patterning of the coordination between father and mother. The “false” subordinated clauses are presented as the other example of the hypotactic coordination. On the other side, the nominal constructions introduced by the expressions místo [instead of], and the ambiguous expression kromě [beside/with exception] are excluded from the domain of asymmetry and the proposal to classify them as specific types of adverbials (a substitution, an addition, and an exception) is formulated.
Since 1990s when liberalization and deregulation processes first opened the social security field to market forces, the EU competition law has had to cope with the situations of clash between values of social welfare and free competition. In the post-crisis period the European Union wants and needs to be more socially responsive, as the strengthening of social justice and social rights, the fight against poverty and social exclusion has become the key to political legitimacy of the European integration as well as of its Member States. A question hence arises how the call for a more social EU would cohabit with the free and undistorted competition. The paper tries to remedy on the fact that the EU so far has no accepted methodology of how to integrate public policy considerations in competition decisions. After sketching out such a methodology based on the CJEU’s pre-Lisbon case law, the present analysis deals with the post-Lisbon developments inquiring whether the CJEU is paying now more consideration to social security measures.