EU: THE TRANSFER OF PUBLIC SERVICES INTO PRIVATE HANDS

Sanda Gheorghe Gabriel
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Sanda Gheorghe Gabriel: FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI UNIVERSITY OF TARGU-JIU

Annals - Economy Series, 2026, vol. 1, 295-301

Abstract: In the past, universal access to essential public services served as an important mechanism for generating a good relationship between the market, social cohesion and democracy in many European countries. But, with the growing dominance of the mode of negative integration across the continent, citizens are being reconstituted as consumers and small shareholders. Meanwhile, privatisation of public services steamrolls the results of the decommodification of wage labour achieved in the short social democratic century.

Keywords: public services; consumers; social cohesion; democracy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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