Sessione 6 - Social Europe in the context of multiple crises: challenges, opportunities and prospects

Coordinatori / Coordinatrici di sessione: Patrik Vesan (Università della Valle d’Aosta), Anna Kyriazi (Università degli studi di Milano), Ilaria Madama (Università degli studi di Milano)

Abstract:
Over the past fifteen years, the EU has been facing a number of major crises. From the Great Recession onwards, these shocks have posed unparalleled challenges to the Union and its stability, but have also prompted opportunities for reform and change that may not have been available otherwise.

In the social policy sphere, things have been evolving too, partly transforming the multi-faceted social Europe architecture. The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017 with its legislative and non-legislative initiatives, the reform of social funding with the 2021-2027 ESF+, SURE, the NextGeneration EU and the recent Council Recommendation on adequate minimum income are just some of the many heterogeneous pieces that have been added during the last decade to the EU social space.

Accepted paper:

• Does Social Europe Matter? Turning points and dynamics of public support the EU in the Mediterranean countries confronting external shocks di Federico Bruno (Università degli Studi di Milano), Ilaria Madama (Università degli Studi di Milano), Alessandro Pellegata (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• No welfare without workfare? Revisiting minimum income typologies in active inclusion times (2008-2022) di Llorenç Soler-Buades (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
• A Supranational Social Protection Floor for All? The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in the European Union di Viola Shahini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Angelo Panaro (Università degli Studi di Milano), Matteo Jessoula (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• Money makes the world go round: How much difference do Recovery and Resilience Plans make to fiscal and social governance? di Marcello Natili (Università degli Studi di Milano), Joan Mirò (Università degli Studi di Milano), Waltraud Schelkle (European University Institute)
• Compensating for the green transition: An analysis of the EU’s Just Transition Fund and Social Climate Fund di Anna Kyriazi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Joan Miró Artigas (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)
• Social Europe and neoliberalism(s): a Zeitwende? di Francesco Laruffa (London School of Economics e University of Bremen), Arnaud Lechevalier (Université de Paris 1)
• Binding for bonding? How EU social and political asymmetries creates the condition for the strengthening of the EU polity di Niccolò Donati (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• Stability and Change in the face of major Crises: an analysis of the Portuguese Social Security System di Maria Clara Oliveira (CoLABOR)