Re-emerging social ambitions in EU policy making? with Bart Vanhercke and Slavina Spasova
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
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Summary
The European Union is currently fighting on two main fronts, Covid-19 and climate change, though with skirmishes elsewhere – including migration and the rule of law. While science seems to be slowly gaining the upper hand in the fight against the pandemic, despite setbacks like the latest Omicron attack, Covid-19 continues to hold global society in its grip. But the second nut is even harder to crack. Climate change is rolling out its forces, in the form of floods, droughts, tornados and hurricanes, and striking indiscriminately.
Vanhercke, Spasova et al. (2022) Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2021
Sabato et al. (2022) A ‘Social Imbalances Procedure’ for the EU
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to ETIY podcast, Voices on the World of Work. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm your host, Bianca Runa Fabrice, and in this episode, we will be focusing on what has |
| 0:10.0 | been happening in terms of social policies at a European level throughout this past year. |
| 0:14.6 | The podcast stems from our recent publication, Bilan Social, and we have the pleasure |
| 0:19.9 | of having us the two editors of the book |
| 0:21.9 | by Vanerke and Slavina Spasopa from the European Social Observatory. In the show notes, |
| 0:27.7 | you will be able to find a link to the publication that is available both in English and in |
| 0:32.1 | French and a few other links that we think you might enjoy. So, Bart, maybe I would actually |
| 0:36.5 | like to start with a question for you. |
| 0:38.9 | In a nutshell, could you perhaps outline which policy shift has taken place in EU social policymaking |
| 0:46.6 | throughout this past year? Yes, I'll be happy to start. Thank you, Bianca. Also, for having us today. |
| 0:52.9 | So much has happened since last year. |
| 0:56.3 | Just think of it. |
| 0:57.7 | The cover of our book starts with this sentence. |
| 1:02.3 | The European Union is currently fighting on two main fronts. |
| 1:06.8 | COVID-19 and climate change. |
| 1:09.1 | Looking at the cover here, we could never of course have imagined that |
| 1:13.5 | merely a few weeks later an actual war is being fought on the European continent. |
| 1:18.5 | This is really stunning and as a consequence as we know of course the biggest refugee crisis |
| 1:24.1 | since the Second World War is now unfolding with over 1.5 million people |
| 1:29.3 | having fled their homes and it would seem that the worst is yet to come. |
| 1:34.3 | But I'll move to your question regarding EU social policy making because of course |
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