SOCIAL PROTECTION AS THE KEY PILLAR OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
SOCIAL PROTECTION AS THE KEY PILLAR OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: Social protection systems are the most significant sphere of practicing solidarity in a welfare state. They represent one of the fundamental common signs of a European welfare state, covering significant risks in life and being based on the solidarity principle. Current economic and social development has started a new stage of the development of social protection national systems in the EU which have to respond to the internal problems within individual social protection schemes, including financial ones, and to the indirect impact of the economic growth schemes transformation in knowledge economy.

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