Crisis? What Crisis? EU Enlargement and the Political Economy of European Union Social Policy

In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 207-215

Abstract

This article considers the character of EU social policy and in particular the linkages between the EU's economic and social strategies. Arguably, the most recent enlargement of the EU represents a turning point for the future of EU social policy, though there is disagreement about its future if not so much about the causes of this crisis. The article concludes that the future political economy of EU social policy and indeed of the EU itself may be subject to fundamental changes.