THE EUROPEAN PILLAR OF SOCIAL RIGHTS: ADDING VALUE TO THE SOCIAL EUROPE?
THE EUROPEAN PILLAR OF SOCIAL RIGHTS: ADDING VALUE TO THE SOCIAL EUROPE?

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the European Commission’s latest major initiative in the social field, the European Pillar of Social Rights, examining the rationale behind this project, the merits and shortcomings of the mentioned proposal. Declared as an initiative that tries to overcome the negative effects of the crisis on the labour markets and social welfare systems, to heal the social wounds of Europe, and to renew convergence within the Euro area, this paper analyses the proposal through the lens of the major challenges that Europe is confronting nowadays, the convergence and divergence trends that we experiment inside the Union. Hence, the paper deals with the following questions: Does this initiative respond to the needs and challenges that Europe is facing today?; Does this initiative envisage policy avenues that encourage social convergence, that are capable of making a decisive impact on poverty, in order to reverse the threat of disintegration that faces the EU today?

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