2015
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1052623
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Austerity and the Demise of Social Europe: The Baltic Model versus the European Social Model

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“…Specifically focusing on crisis resolution in the Baltic countries, Woolfson and Sommers (2016) argue that the undeviating commitment to strictly neoliberal disciplinarian terms by the current European Commission and the international financial community has been an ultimate social and economic failure (Woolfson and Sommers 2016: 90). Analysing Latvia's economic governance simultaneously under the Balance-of-Payments programme, euro convergence and the European Semester, the paper aims to provide a more balanced view of the Commission's stance on social policy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Specifically focusing on crisis resolution in the Baltic countries, Woolfson and Sommers (2016) argue that the undeviating commitment to strictly neoliberal disciplinarian terms by the current European Commission and the international financial community has been an ultimate social and economic failure (Woolfson and Sommers 2016: 90). Analysing Latvia's economic governance simultaneously under the Balance-of-Payments programme, euro convergence and the European Semester, the paper aims to provide a more balanced view of the Commission's stance on social policy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The assumed demise of the flexicurity model has been linked to the EU's crisis focus on austerity measures, which lowered the fiscal space of countries to guarantee suitable social security (Barbier 2015;Heyes 2013). Moreover, EUlevel attention has been viewed as being biased towards structural reforms that favor flexibility over security (Hermann 2014;Woolfson and Sommers 2016). Some predict that the EU will continue to try to exit the crisis by stimulating flexibility policies at the expense of employee security (Tsarouhas and Ladi 2013).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In the neoliberal discourse, issues of income redistribution, redistributive justice, full employment aspirations, social citizenship, social democracy, social security, social protection, solidarity, and collective bargaining are silenced or left out. The neoliberal image of Social Europe is characterized by the quest for unleashing market forces (instead of taming them), for promoting competitiveness in the global era in which division of labor is re‐arranged on a global scale (Kleinman, ; Schmidt & Thatcher, ; Woolfson & Sommers, ). In 2006, the European Globalization Adjustment Fund was established precisely for that purpose, namely, to help European industries restructure and become more competitive (Armstrong, ).…”
Section: “Images Of Social Europe” and Open Methods Of Coordination Pementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this image, Social Europe is technocratically re‐engineered to ensure that market competitiveness is promoted through, rather than jeopardized by, social policy and de‐commodification of labor: social policy is a function for the common market. Accordingly, Social Europe is connected to austerity frameworks, such as the Economic and Monetary Union and the European Semester, established to ensure that MS adhere to fiscal discipline, hard currencies, low inflation, sound budgets, debt reduction, and re‐commodification of labor (Armstrong, ; Copeland & Daly, ; Crespy & Menz, ; Preece, ; Van Kersbergen & Hemerijck, ; Woolfson & Sommers, ). Given such austerity frameworks, “social” issues such as unemployment and poverty have a lower priority than fiscal consolidation and promoting competitiveness.…”
Section: “Images Of Social Europe” and Open Methods Of Coordination Pementioning
confidence: 99%