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Social Policy in the European Union (Hardcover)
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Social Policy in the European Union (Hardcover)
Series: The European Union Series
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Social policy has become an increasingly prominent component of the
European Union's policy-making responsibilities. Today, for
example, a highly developed body of law regulates equal treatment
in social security and co-ordinates national security schemes;
national health services have opened up to patients and service
providers from other states; and rules govern the translation of
educational and vocational certificates across member states. This
state of affairs is all the more remarkable given the relatively
limited resources at the EU's disposal and the initial intentions
of its founders. During negotiations for the Treaty of Rome in the
1950s, social policy was viewed as the exclusive provenance of the
member states. There were to be provisions to facilitate labour
mobility within the common market, but until the 1970s social
policy making at the EU-level was modest. However, plans for the
internal market moved social policy on the EU's decision-making
agenda. The Social Chapter was adopted in 1989, and the Single
European Act expanded EU competencies in social policy. The
Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice all expanded
competencies further, so that by the time the heads of government
met in Lisbon in 2007 to sign the EU's latest treaty, the extent of
supranational control over important aspects of social policy
making was quite impressive. This important book provides a full
account of the evolution of social policy in the EU and of its
current reach. It examines the reasons for the increased role of
the EU in the area, in spite of formidable obstacles, and details
its effects in member states, where social provision is often the
biggest item in government budgets and a crucial issue in national
elections. Drawing on research done on welfare states around the
world and on European integration, this book provides a distinctive
and sophisticated account of social policy in Europe, showing how
it must now be understood in the context of multi-level governance
in which EU institutions play a pivotal role.
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