A greener and more social pillar
As the Social Summit looms, a step change in social and environmental rights is needed to realise the EU’s just-transition goal.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Maria Petmesidou is professor emerita of social policy at Democritus University, Greece. For several years she was a member of the scientific committee of Comparative Research on Poverty, sponsored by the International Social Science Council and the University of Bergen. Ana M Guillén is professor of sociology at the University of Oviedo (Spain) and director of Promoting Work and Welfare in Europe. Her research interests include welfare-state development, comparative social and labour policy and Europeanisation and European integration.
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Social Europe ISSN 2628-7641