Special Issue

Special Issue

Special Issue

Special Issue

12 February 2019

The European Social Union: addressing challenges on the labour market

By Caroline de la Porte

The success of the EPSR – and by extension the development of the ESU - depends upon engagement and ownership by governments and social partners in member states.

11 February 2019

Towards a European Social Union? A Rokkanian–Mephistophelian remark

By Martin Heidenreich

The deep frictions in the aftermath of the financial and eurozone crises and the related crisis of legitimacy might lead to greater consciousness of the gap between the winners and the losers of Europeanisation processes. In the best of all worlds, this might be the power basis for a stronger and more integrated European Social Union.

6 February 2019

A European Social Union for all: a chance to rethink and redo justice and solidarity

By Trudie Knijn

We cannot outline a way forward until we have analysed the roots and causes of decades of neo-liberal reforms, such as deregulation of financial markets, marketisation and outsourcing of public services, and austerity-driven social policies.

3 February 2019

Social Europe and social justice: three steps to save Europe

By Graham Room

Against the market optimism of recent decades, European austerity has exposed the social class divisions of capitalism. Now we need three steps to save Europe.

30 January 2019

Towards a European Social Union: from spillovers to just transitions

By Andrew Watt

Some individual policy areas where I believe a case for moves towards a European Social Union could most readily be made comprehend ending unanimity on tax, coordinating and strengthening collective bargaining and national automatic stabilisers, establishing cross-border automatic stabilisers.

30 January 2019

The way ahead for a European Social Union? Let’s focus on political citizenship and taxation

By Waltraud Schelkle

Political citizenship in the EU and protection of tax states are aspects of an ESU that create a holding environment. They would enable a union of diverse welfare states to live together.

23 January 2019

A European Social Union should address the causes of growing inequalities

By Chiara Saraceno

If achieving a European Social Union means developing a fairer society for all its citizens (and also for non-citizens who come to live here), the causes of ‘unfairness’ and of inequality-producing mechanisms, including those created by the Union itself, should be tackled.

14 January 2019

The European Pillar of Social Rights: ten arguments for prioritising principle 14 on minimum incomes

By Bea Cantillon

The ethical program of the Union should be guided by the principle that everyone is entitled to an adequate minimum income. The time has come to proclaim that a European compact on minimum incomes is not only possible and, desirable, but actually necessary.

5 January 2019

The European Social Union as a “union of national welfare states”: a legal perspective

By Fancesco Costamagna

The fact that the ESU is not intended to be a European Welfare State, but a union of national welfare states, together with the idea according to which the ESU is set to become the institutional counterpart to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) are two features that provide a strong normative orientation to the efforts aiming at creating the ESU.

13 December 2018

A Timely Call for a Social Union

By László Andor

A Social Union cannot just mean more EU level legislation, as it cannot purely be built through more policy coordination or through budgetary instruments either. All three arms of governance have to play a role and in due coordination.

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