The policy paper published by the European Trade Union Institute explores the EU recovery strategy with a specific focus on its potentially transformative aspects vis-à-vis European integration and on its implications for the social dimension of the EU’s socioeconomic governance, intending to reflect on whether the established measures put forward sufficient safeguards against the specter of austerity and on whether these constitute steps towards disfranchising social and labor policies from being used as ‘variables’ of economic growth. While on one hand, the analysis suggests that the EU recovery strategy has taken remarkable steps in the direction of a more solidaristic and socially embedded, it still suggests that the foundations of this progress are fragile. Read more here.
Source: ETUI
