EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY: DO THE STATES MATTER?
EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY: DO THE STATES MATTER?

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the issue of the European policies’ deliberative character and analyses the challenges the Member States face participating in this process. The idea that the European process depends rather on informal institutions, including on the identifications of participants is developed on the base of the European Employment Strategy analysis. The effectiveness of the common employment policy passes through the ability of States to formulate national priorities and to implement them in the framework of the common process. This capability that is not proven from the National action plans study is related to the States representatives’ perceptions of the European process and their own role in it.

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