The financial crisis and the restructuring of the EU social model
The financial crisis and the restructuring of the EU social model

Author(s): Mahmood Messkoub
Subject(s): Politics, National Economy, Supranational / Global Economy, Marxist economics, Sociology, Labor relations, Government/Political systems, Welfare systems, Economic development, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Fiscal Politics / Budgeting, Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: European Union;crisis 2007–2009;EU social model;poverty & employment;ineaquality;solidarity;
Summary/Abstract: Author examines the particular effects of the financial crisis on the systems of social welfare within Europe. He identifies clear signs of a recommodification of welfare and the erosion of 'long cherished principles of reducing inequality, building and consolidating solidarity through a progressive social policy'. He highlights the particular threat to the 'solidarity model of asymmetrical mutuality' represented by destructive processes of austerity and the limited and contradictory ambitions of the Europe 2020 programme.

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