Stefano Ronchi

27 March 2021

European solidarity before and after COVID: we are in this together?

By Stefano Ronchi

The issue of cross-national solidarity in the EU came to the fore 10 years ago, when the sovereign debt crisis unveiled the big inequalities that exist between member states. Back then, mistrust, more than solidarity, prevailed. This time, with the economic aftershocks of the pandemic, the music seems to have changed.

24 July 2020

Minimum income reforms in crisis-ridden EU: social conditionality in the shadow of austerity

By Stefano Ronchi

Despite tight economic conditionality from the EU and international lenders, minimum income policy was expanded in some crisis-ridden European countries. When minimum income expansion was not triggered by domestic politics, the EU crucially intervened to put it on the agenda: ‘social conditionality’ made its appearance alongside economic conditionality.

29 May 2020

Social investment outcomes and policy complementarities: lessons for Social Europe

By Stefano Ronchi

Taking social investment seriously has become more important than ever before to jumpstart European welfare states after the COVID tragedy. A fair balance of social investment and social protection policies will be crucial if no person (or member state) is to be left behind.

10 April 2020

EU welfare states through the crisis: losing track of social investment?

By Stefano Ronchi

The European social investment momentum came to a halt in the years of the crisis. Retrenchment rather than investment became an option for EU welfare states under strain.

«The Italian party, Partito Democratico, goes much deeper in the definition (and ambition) of European social policies in the context of a wider reform process of the EU, than the official German Grand Coalition parties, CDU and SPD»

Stefano Ronchi

Stefano Ronchi

European solidarity before and after COVID: we are in this together?

Minimum income reforms in crisis-ridden EU: social conditionality in the shadow of austerity

Social investment outcomes and policy complementarities: lessons for Social Europe

EU welfare states through the crisis: losing track of social investment?

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