Towards a European Social Union

Towards a European Social Union

Conférence LIEPP/EAP 10 avril 2019 - 17h- 19h
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Le LIEPP et l'Ecole des Affaires Publiques ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence: 

Towards a European Social Union 

Mercredi 10 avril 2019, 17h00 - 19h00

Amphithéâtre Simone Veil

Sciences Po,28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris 

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Présentation:

Ferrera

 

 Maurizio Ferrera

 Professeur de Sciences Politiques 

 Université de Milan 

 

New institutions are seldom built from scratch. They are typically born through piecing together already existing institutional building blocks in a creative way. In recent years, an important debate has been launched on the possible construction of a fully-fledged European Social Union (ESU), with a view to enhancing the functional coherence and effectiveness of the economic and monetary union as well as its political legitimacy. What are the existing pieces that could be brought together for this ambitious reform?

The paper argues that the first step should be to systematically link five different ingredients: 1) the EU "social" constitutional principles already enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty; 2) EU social policies and coordination tools in the wide sense which are already existing (from the newly established European Pillar of Social Rights to the European Semester and the Cohesion Funds); 3) the EU "mobility space" upheld by free movement and social security coordination 4) EU-promoted transnational social programs (cross-regional initiatives and cross-national schemes for occupational benefits); 5) national social protection systems, and in particular their "modernization/social investment agenda" as promoted and supported by the EU.

ESU should start as a limited, by recognizable system of separate but interdependent elements, subject (as in the EMU) to common rules and principles and aimed at sustaining/promoting two types of solidarity: a pan-European solidarity between countries and between individual EU citizens centered on supranational institutions and the more traditional forms of national solidarity, centered on "recalibrated" domestic institutions. 

Pour en savoir plus à ce sujet, consultez le site de l'observatoire EuVisions, destiné à fournir des informations et des analyses actualisées sur des questions cruciales relatives à l'Union sociale européenne (ESU) et au développement du processus d'intégration européenne. Il a été créé dans le cadre du projet ERC REScEU (Reconciling Economic and Social Europe: Values, Ideas and Politics)  et dirigé par Maurizio Ferrera.

Discutant:

Bruno Palier, directeur de recherche CNRS, LIEPP et CEE

 

 

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