Waiting for Godot? The Social Europe cycles in the history of the European integration
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Abstract
This article analyses the scholarly debates about the history of social policies of the European Union. It introduces and discusses in three sections organised chronologically the various cycles of Social Europe in the last half century and the reasons put forward by historians and sociologists.
Keywords
- Social Europe
- European treaties
- Lisbon strategy
- Europe 2020
- Social rights
