Amidst geopolitical shifts, the notion that Europe must choose between security and social support is not only politically dangerous but also economically unsound.
The capacity to ‘compete’—rethinking the welfare state
Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social investment.
Why social investment holds the key to delivering on the Draghi report
A vast untapped potential for improving economic progress and social well-being across the EU needs to be unlocked through social investment.
European solidarity: silver linings through dark clouds
Say it quietly but adversity is bringing Europe together.
The Social Investment Package And The Europe 2020 Policy Agenda
The European welfare state and the European Union (EU) find themselves caught up in a double bind in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. On the one hand, domestically, EU members are politically bound by widely cherished national social contracts on welfare provision, which in hard economic times are especially difficult to renege upon. […]