Crisis, Post-Crisis and the Welfare State: Where is the European Social Model Headed to?
Abstract
The economic crisis and the economic policy followed to readdress the main economic disequilibrium generated have affected the development of European Welfare States. The structural reforms carried out by most EU States have had a deep impact on the strength of the Welfare States, either because they were directly aim at it, or due to the collateral damage inflicted by the policy of fiscal consolidation followed. This paper aims at reviewing to what extend the economic crisis and its management, driven and backed by the ECFIN (Economic and Financial Affairs Council) has affected European Welfare States, an institution that before the crisis has shown a great deal of resilience to confront the attacks aim at it for decades.
Received: 23 September 2015
Accepted: 27 January 2016
Published online: 30 April 2016
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