The Roaring 20s for Social Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights and burgeoning EU legislation

Kilpatrick, Claire

doi:10.1177/10242589231169664

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

2023

DOI: 10.1177/10242589231169664

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The Roaring 20s for Social Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights and burgeoning EU legislation

Claire Kilpatrick

Abstract: Social Europe is not only back but, we aim to show, bigger and bolder than ever before. Through historical comparison we make the case that, rather than being a false dawn, legislative developments linked to the 2017 European Pillar of Social Rights (Pillar or EPSR) beckon such a significant and broad-based burgeoning of Social Europe that it can be characterised as the ‘Roaring 20s’ for Social Europe. This is quite a surprise based on recent Social Europe history, the Pillar itself and established EU competen… Show more

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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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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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The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study

Marques,

Branco,

Guimarães

2024

Comp Eur Polit

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Over the past decades, the level of regulation of fixed-term contracts has been in flux. Many reforms deregulating these contracts were followed by a regulatory countertrend, a puzzling finding considering influential theoretical expectations like the ones developed by the dualization and liberalization literatures. This paper draws on the comparative employment relations and comparative political economy literatures to identify the drivers of pro-outsider reforms. Furthermore, it develops an innovative argument claiming that governments may rely on support from a ‘domestic coalition’ including workers in permanent contracts, or they can leverage the European link to support their intention of conducting a pro-outsider reform. Each of these paths relies on the assemblage of distinct pro-reform coalitions of policy actors. To test our argument, the paper uses fsQCA. We compare 38 reforms enacted in 16 European countries between 1985–2019. After the fsQCA analysis, we conduct a qualitative discussion of the different paths.

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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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The Roaring 20s for Social Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights and burgeoning EU legislation

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

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

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

The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study

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

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