The European Union is in the midst of its deepest economic and financial crisis yet. And apart from the urgent questions about how to stop the immediate crisis, there are also more fundamental issues concerning a sustainable structure for the European economy of the future. The widespread believe – commonly held in the 1990s and [...]
Rethinking Equality and Justice for the Good Society – A New Online Debate
14/03/2011 by
Over the next weeks starting today, Social Europe Journal will run an online debate on the concepts of ‘equality’ and ‘justice’ and what they mean in our societies. Together with two European think tanks, the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Swedish Arbetarrörelsens Tankesmedja, we will publish about 20 contributions by well-known as well as [...]
European Austerity Regimes are a Threat to the Welfare State
22/11/2010 by
The welfare state in Europe is under attack – and what’s the news? In the past decades, we have seen both the gradual erosion of the welfare state’s financial basis as well as fundamental structural reforms that got to the core of welfare provision. This transformation has been accompanied by an intense debate about the [...]
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