The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?

Keune, Maarten; Pochet, Philippe

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“…The adoption of the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive, the Recommendation on adequate minimum income, the Directive strengthening gender equality in the labour market and the new initiatives in the realm of care show continuity with the other policies introduced by the von der Leyen Commission and with the principles enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights of 2017. Keune and Pochet (2023) highlighted three main dimensions of innovation in the policies adopted between the Juncker Commission and early 2023, namely, increasing protections at the labour market margins (viz., the measures regarding posted workers, platform workers, minimum wages and transparent working conditions), the strengthening of the industrial relations system, and the financing of Social Europe (most notably through SURE and RRF). Regarding their policy content, Huguenot‐Noël and Corti (2023) argued that recent initiatives brought the EU social dimension in the direction of more universalizing and capacitating functions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With hindsight, the policy advancements that occurred in the years that followed, and the continuous references by EU institutions to the EPSR as a source of guidance, led scholars to interpret with more confidence the adoption of the Pillar as a turning point for Social Europe (De la Porte and Madama 2022; Huguenot‐Noël and Corti 2023; Keune and Pochet 2023). These developments spanned across the areas of social protection and strengthening of working rights and included the adoption, in sequence, of the Posting of Workers Directive (Dir.…”

Section: Social Europe Between 2017 and 2021: A New Period Of Expansion?mentioning

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Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring

Carella

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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After 2 years of dealing with the social consequences of the pandemic, European citizens and policy-makers entered 2022 with glimpses of hope regarding the prospects for economic, labour market and social recovery. Despite cross-country and within-country variation, the real output in the European Union (EU) had returned to its 2019 level by 2021. By spring of the same year, the average EU unemployment rate had reached January 2019 levels. Then, less than 2 months into the New Year, the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought war on the EU borders, altering previous patterns of recovery and established policy agendas. At the social level, the most relevant implication experienced by European citizens was the deepening of the inflationary trends that had started manifesting in 2021, which turned into a cost-of-living crisis over the course of 2022. While the actual impact of this further shock will be assessed fully in the coming years, the insecurity and precariousness that characterized the most vulnerable social groups revealed once again the existing gaps within welfare states and social protection systems from the local level to the supranational level.Similarly to what happened after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the responses by national policy-makers were swift and largely in the form of compensatory measures. The EU contributed to the financial effort by allowing member states to redirect recovery funds to finance emergency social protection schemes at the national level through the Temporary Crisis Framework enacted in March 2022. The other two main axes of intervention by EU institutions involved the European Central Bank's maneuvers to mitigate inflation, by starting to raise interest rates in July 2022 for the first time since 2011, and the granting of temporary protection to people fleeing Ukraine. The latter was among the first decisions undertaken at the EU level in response to the war, which gave refugees access to key rights, including entitlement to welfare benefits.Concurrently to the immediate reactions to the war and cost-of-living crisis, the EU social policy agenda maintained the path of expansion and strengthening initiated in the previous years. Significant policy milestones were reached in 2022, whose potential benefits resonated even more in the midst of an inflationary context, as it was the case, notably, of the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. However, the recent social policy developments need to be analysed as part of a broader process of re-orientation of the European social dimension, undoubtedly characterized in recent years by significant new impetus. While the latest advancements have been encouraging, the full extent of this new period of expansion will need to be monitored closely and evaluated over the coming years. The article proceeds as follows. The first section illustrates the main aspects of the social consequences of inflation during 2022. The second section analyses the evolution

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Section: Social Europe Between 2017 and 2021: A New Period Of Expansion?mentioning

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Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring

Carella

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…This 'Social Europe' turn is marked by a pursuit of regulations aiming to diminish social inequality across Member States to achieve a degree of social convergence. This approach and ambition contrast with those from the Barroso Commissions (2004Commissions ( -2014 (Keune & Pochet, 2023).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…First, the use of EU-wide minimum standards to diminish social inequalities grew under the Juncker Commission. However, this trend has become even more prevalent under the von der Leyen Commission (2019 onwards) (Keune & Pochet, 2023). Second, despite its growing prevalence, we still know little from existing literature about how national parties view the expanded use of this form of EU social policymaking.…”

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Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations

2024

Soc Policy Adm

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How do national political parties vary in their views on Social Europe? I focus on an aspect that has received less attention despite its growing prevalence—EU regulations with ambitions to diminish social inequality to encourage social convergence among Member States. Since the Juncker Commission, the European Commission has become increasingly active in pursuing this aspect of Social Europe. Thus, understanding parties' positions on this aspect of Social Europe has become more important. However, current literature lacks measures of national party stances towards Social Europe, and explanations for these stances. Here, I use data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (2006, 2009, 2014 and 2019) to develop an indirect measure of party positions on Social Europe. Leveraging studies in party politics and EU politics, I propose that party families and national economic conditions may affect parties' positions on Social Europe. The analyses suggest substantial variation in parties' positions on Social Europe both within and across party families. The analyses also demonstrate that socialist and green parties support Social Europe most, whereas radical right parties support it least. Lastly, I do not find systematic evidence that national economic conditions influence parties' support for this aspect of Social Europe.

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“…First, the rapid expansion of the EU social acquis following the inter-institutional proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) in 2017. Since then, the social dimension of the EU has been growing faster than ever before through the adoption of new Directives, Recommendations and other instruments (Keune and Pochet, 2023), prompting Claire Kilpatrick (2023) to refer to the post-EPSR period as the 'Roaring Twenties for Social Europe'. Second, the social acquis has been broadening in terms of the subject matters it covers, moving far beyond its traditional focus on health and safety, non-discrimination and cross-border mobility to include a wider range of issues, including minimum wages, minimum income, food aid and work-life balance.…”

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Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union

Keune,

Ferrera,

Corti

2023

Journal of European Social Policy

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This introductory article to the Special Issue Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union first argues that there is a need for a novel systematic framework that captures the increasingly complex web of relationships between the European level and the national and local levels in the creation and implementation of social rights. It then summarizes the contributions of the articles included in the Special Issue, starting with the first article that provides such a novel framework, a power resource-based and multi-layered conception of social rights which looks at social rights as bundles of three key power resources: normative, enforcement and instrumental resources. It then shows how the other articles apply this framework when analysing a variety of issues related to European social citizenship. Finally, it sums up the main contributions of the Special Issue: its contribution to the further development of power resource theory; to the theory of social citizenship; and to capturing how social rights in the EU increasingly result from the creative assemblage of different resources provided by different actors and levels of government, resulting in a ‘marble cake’ pattern akin to that existing in historical federations like the US or Switzerland.

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The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring

Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring

Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations

Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union

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