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The Paradoxes of the Economic Crisis: an analysis of its social consequences in the EU
The Paradoxes of the Economic Crisis: an analysis of its social consequences in the EU

Author(s): Loredana STAN
Subject(s): Economic policy, Welfare systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Financial Markets
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: EU; economic crisis; welfare state; social policy; reform;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze the effects of international economic crisis on social policy in the European Union. Paradoxically, although the economic convulsions into which the European countries have been struggling for years now actually represent the resemblance of the crisis of the capitalist system, measures are not being taken to put some order in markets chaos but they materialize in social protection and social policies budgets cutbacks. The consequences of such political tendency all across Europe leads to the polarization of European society, seriously threatening the social cohesion and setting the bases for questioning the "welfare state", in all its forms, the same model they have promoted over the last decades.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 33+34
  • Page Range: 196-209
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English