THE EUROPEAN SPORT MODEL: A MODEL TO DEFEND

Abstract

The contradictory positions taken by the European institutions on the European Sport Model have demonstrated the difficulty of understanding such a model for decades. The existing conflicting situations show that the specificity of sport is struggling to play its role in protecting European sport. It, therefore, seems legitimate to ask the question of how to defend the European sport model, especially in the context of heterogeneous legislation and organisational models for sports within European countries. The aim of the article is, above all, to demonstrate that the European model emanates from a vision based on fundamental values that must take sport beyond the mere consideration of economic activity. As such, one of the challenges lies in maintaining the interactions between the different levels of the pyramid.