Social Europe - A Manifesto

By Colin Crouch

The European Union is excellently equipped to pursue the most urgent issues facing the advanced world: combating environmental damage and climate change, coping with the massive aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, reforming globalisation, regulating financialised capitalism, reducing material inequalities and reconciling the future of work in a rapidly changing economy with workers' needs for secure lives. The EU's leading role as global standard-setter, and the potential of the social-investment welfare state, are among the instruments at its disposal.

But, argues Colin Crouch in this manifesto for a return to the 'social Europe' agenda, to achieve these goals the EU needs to face the two menaces stalking today's politics: neoliberalism and xenophobic nationalism. To do so it must confront the weakness of social democracy, historically the main political protagonist of the causes of co-operation and inclusion on which the strategy depends.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3948314128
• ISBN13: 9783948314125
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Social Europe Ltd.
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"