EU integration and the welfare state

Corti, Francesco

doi:10.4337/9781800885264.00010

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“…The so-called ‘Enforcement Directive’ introduced important novelties to distinguish genuine from fraudulent postings, enhance the dialogue between national inspectorate authorities, and improve monitoring capacities. While these provisions supplied posted workers with new instrumental resources to claim these rights, this first revision of the PWD failed to address the critical uncertainties faced by most precarious posted workers, namely on minimum rates of pay, access to core social rights, or inconsistencies in EU rules on social security coordination (Corti, 2022). This preserved the stratification.…”

Section: New Rights For Whom? a More Inclusive Eu Employment Agenda I...mentioning

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EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

Huguenot-Noël

Corti²

2023

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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When does the EU employment growth agenda also serve social progress? Scholars concerned with the equality/efficiency trade-off generally look at the EU as an agenda-setter. Little attention has yet been paid to its role as direct provider of social rights. Building on a data set of 71 EU measures and 317 judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, this article evaluates the extent to which EU employment policies helped to advance social citizenship by assessing the scope and distribution of individual entitlements over time (2009–2022). Our findings show that, after almost two decades of silence, the EU not only expanded the scope of its influence over individual social rights but also took an inclusive turn, driven by more ‘universalising’ and ‘capacitating’ initiatives. Looking ahead, better monitoring of the distributive profile of EU initiatives indirectly affecting rights production (such as SURE or the Recovery and Resilience Facility) would help to ensure that this shift increasingly benefits those needing it the most.

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EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

Huguenot-Noël

Corti²

2023

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…While these studies provide a wealth of insights, many are quite dated, conducted before the adoption of the amending Directive and the supposed socialization turn. The exception is the study by Corti (2022), which nonetheless examines posting policy evolution long durée, and therefore the 2016 reform is only one part of the analysis. This article, by contrast, reconstructs the policy process in its entirety, from the Commission’s proposal to the eventual passage of the amending Directive.…”

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“…The Directive did not elaborate on this concept, clarifying, for example, whether it included allowances, supplements etc., nor did it recognize local collective agreements setting pay rates higher than those for local workers. Over time several legislative gaps became evident regarding a variety of issues, such as the conditions of employment of posted workers, or the extent to which companies posting workers had a genuine link with the state in which they were established (for details see: Corti, 2022). Furthermore, there was a mismatch between the posted workers directive and a tangent regulation on the coordination of social security (Reg.…”

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“…The Commission managed to pass a new instrument, the 2014 Enforcement Directive, which sought to tackle posting-related fraud and regulatory evasion. This was eventually adopted in a watered-down form, leaving the main parameters of the extant rules unchallenged (Corti, 2022). More importantly, the Enforcement Directive did not address practices beyond outright fraud, leaving room for regulatory evasion and ‘rule bending’ (Arnholtz and Lillie, 2019) based on the ambiguities and contradictions in the legal framework.…”

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“…While, according to participant assessments, the Slovak presidency was an ‘honest broker’ (Interview 1), the process nonetheless stalled. 7 A compromise bill put forth by the subsequent Maltese presidency also failed, with some progress made on certain key issues, such as remuneration, collective agreements, and temporary work (Corti, 2022).…”

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Making and breaking coalitions for a more ‘Social Europe’: The path towards the revision of the posted workers directive

Kyriazi

2023

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The article traces the passage of the legislative amendment that changed the rules of the intra-EU posting of workers, proposed by the Juncker Commission in 2016. Using data gathered from the news media and 11 interviews, it reconstructs the policy-making process, finding that this was shaped by means of intergovernmental interactions between executives of (groups of) member states. A key turning point occurred in August 2017, when the then newly elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, embarked on a highly publicized tour in a select group of eastern European states, with the stated aim of building support for the amending Directive. Eventually, the coalition of Eastern European member states that had initially challenged the Commission’s proposal was dismantled, clearing the way for its adoption. Extra-institutional intergovernmental negotiations propel contested policy initiatives forward by limiting the range of actors involved in the policy process, by relaxing the complex decision-making rules characteristic of the EU, and by providing opportunities to instrumentalize media attention.

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Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status

Eick

2024

Journal of European Social Policy

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While the European Union (EU) increasingly strengthens its social integration, opposition towards this process can also be observed, here defined as ‘welfare Euroscepticism’. To better understand this newly defined policy paradigm, this article aims to explain longstanding cleavages in both social policy and EU research: socioeconomic status (SES) divides. Contrary to the literature on public support for European integration, this article argues that higher SES groups are more likely to be welfare Eurosceptics than lower SES groups. This argument and its underlying explanations are examined through a multilevel approach using European Social Survey data from 18 EU member states, using the example of a potential EU-wide minimum income scheme. First, the results demonstrate that welfare Euroscepticism is indeed more prevalent among higher SES groups than lower SES groups (measured through occupation, education, income, and employment). The results indicate robust self-interest patterns among higher SES groups that do not want to carry (perceived) financial burdens of EU social policies. The opinion patterns also emphasize the multidimensionality of attitudes towards EU policies since the SES cleavages can reverse, depending on the policy in focus. Overall, the results indicate much potential to mobilize the larger proportion of the public to support EU social policies, that is, lower SES groups. However, potential conflicts may arise when the EU expands on policies that their traditional supporters – higher SES groups – are more likely to oppose. The article also shows that welfare solidarity on the individual and the country level can mitigate such conflicts. This is because higher levels of welfare generosity and lower levels of welfare chauvinism on the individual and the country level are related to smaller SES cleavages.

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EU integration and the welfare state

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EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

Making and breaking coalitions for a more ‘Social Europe’: The path towards the revision of the posted workers directive

Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status

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