Massimiliano Santini, author at Social Europe

Rescue, not renewal: social investment for future wellbeing

Anton Hemerijck and Massimiliano Santini

The welfare state in Europe must become a social-investment state if the broken European social contract is to be renewed.

Can Italy survive its self-inflicted wounds?

Massimiliano Santini

Italy’s populist government has been keen to blame Brussels for its fiscal-policy constraint. But its own choice of crowd-pleasing spending over public investment and reform

A New Political Narrative For Europe

Massimiliano Santini

In August, Bono, lead singer of U2, wrote an editorial on Europe in which he pointed out that it may not be romantic or sexy

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