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The European Social Union: how to piece it together
Maurizio Ferrera
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The Lisbon Treaty as mentioned in this paper assigned clear and ambitious objectives to the Union: social progress, full employment, a high level of protection, inclusion and non-discrimination, social justice, equality between women and men as well as solidarity between generations and the protection of children's rights.Abstract:
Over the last decade, ‘Social Europe’ has followed a U-shaped trajectory. In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty assigned clear and ambitious objectives to the Union: social progress, full employment, a high level of protection, inclusion and non-discrimination, social justice, equality between women and men as well as solidarity between generations and the protection of children’s rights (Art. 3 TEU). Economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among Member States were also explicitly referred to. Not all national constitutions are so explicit and exigent. Many observers in fact welcomed the Lisbon Treaty as the culmination of (and at the same time as a springboard for further strengthening) the long process of mutual opening up and convergence between Member States: an economically beneficial and at the same time socially and politically sustainable ‘coming together’ of European state-peoples.read more
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Risk Sharing When Unemployment Hits: How Policy Design Influences Citizen Support For European Unemployment Risk Sharing (EURS): Policy report
Frank Vandenbroucke,Brian Burgoon,Theresa Kuhn,Francesco Nicoli,Stefano Sacchi,D. van der Duin,Sven Hegewald +6 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted a survey experiment on public support for European unemployment risk sharing (EURS) among a representative sample of respondents in 13 European member states in October and November 2018 and found that the majority of the respondents supported the idea of sharing the risk of unemployment crisis hitting their countries.
The European Pillar of Social Rights: from promise to delivery –Introduction to the ‘European Social Union (ESU) public forum debate'
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Can Economic and Social Europe Be Reconciled? : Citizens’ View on Integration and Solidarity
TL;DR: The REScEU project as mentioned in this paper conducted a cross-country public opinion survey in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom between September and November 2016.
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