Analyses

Analyses

Analyses

Analyses

The Analyses section provides brief research notes relating to four main streams: social media, political visions, public opinion and policy focus.

5 March 2021

EAPN Poverty Watch 2020 online conference: is COVID supercharging poverty in the EU?

By Niccolo Donati

The year 2020 has transformed the challenge posed by poverty to all of Europe. Through increased functional pressure and restricted accessibility to what are deemed necessary resources (such as healthcare), the risk of poverty has risen manyfold. Now, the EU is at a turning point: either it fights poverty or it will allow poverty to rise to an unprecedented level.

27 February 2021

EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EASI): Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

The EaSI programme is the main instrument through which the EU delivers its social innovation policy. It is a Swiss Army knife policy tool that includes three different instruments to achieve its goals. The programme comprises three axes, each representing a different facet of social innovation.

26 January 2021

European Green Deal: A change of perspective from the Commission?

By Giovanni Simioni and Niccolo Donati

The “Just Transition” approach has gained traction in recent years. It can be best conceptualised not as a rival approach to “Green Growth”, insofar as it does incorporate the concept of Green Growth and many of its policy instruments.

16 January 2021

Article 50: self-destruct button or safety valve?

By Anna Kyriazi and Niccolo Donati

As the Brexit process has finally concluded, this post goes back to the beginning asking why the EU has established the right to unilateral withdrawal, in the first place?

16 November 2020

Towards a Next Generation EU for an inclusive recovery?

By Francesco Corti, David Rinaldi and Christian Morabito

The Next Generation EU represents a unique opportunity that must be seized in order to guarantee a fair and inclusive recovery that meets citizens’ expectations. The design of the national recovery strategies and their implementation is essentially what will determine the fate of the Next Generation EU initiative.

6 November 2020

Myth: Europe is in need of a “Finalité Politique”

By Caterina Di Fazio and Mathieu Segers

A finalité politique is at odds with the nature of European integration. There is no end goal, and that is how it ought to be. By definition, the Europe of European integration is a volatile and hybrid institution, a temporary fix. A temporary fix that has to prove itself as an appealing and convincing version of that big post-war Western experiment with capitalism and democracy. Capitalism and democracy the European way, if you wish. Key to its attraction is that is never set in definite form, nor believes in such a thing.

30 October 2020

Reforming the Dublin Pact and Activating EU Solidarity: The Objectives of the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

By Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

The increase in migratory flows towards the European Union (EU) during the 2014–2016 period was followed by a genuine political–institutional crisis and the paralysis of the Common European Asylum System. In 2020, the European Commission presented the New Pact on Asylum and Migration, a composite policy instrument that promises to deeply reform the common asylum policy.

26 October 2020

Towards de-globalisation? What are the implications for the European Union’s social policy?

By Joan Miró i Artigas

The tide of globalisation seems to be changing in recent times. What could imply a de-globalising scenario for social policy within the EU?

31 July 2020

SURE: What about a permanent instrument?

By Francesco Corti and Cinzia Alcidi

Short-time work (STW) schemes have proved to be the ace of Member States’ response to the social and employment crisis induced by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, the proposal of the Commission for a temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE), is to be welcomed as a bold and innovative move. Is the time ripe for the Commission to put the proposal forward for a permanent SURE?

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.

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