SOCIAL MALFUNCTIONS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL

Paul Lucian ()
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Paul Lucian: Conf. Univ. Dr., Universitatea „Lucian Blaga” Sibiu, Romania

THE YEARBOOK OF THE "GH. ZANE" INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCHES, 2016, vol. 25, issue 1, 41-48

Abstract: For most countries, social policy is a use of political power on the economic system, with the purpose of achieving certain results based on other values than those determined by the forces of the free market; as such, it is deemed to be at the heart of the ideological rift between left and right wing politics. Initially, the European social model was based on the ‘welfare’ rule; the current European social model and future models are more complex, due to difficulties both at an European and at a national level. The greatest achievement of the European Economic Community refers to the fact that E.U citizens are entitled entitled to freedom of employment and movement across the European Union. We note that often times, this freedom creates disturbances on the labor market. Free movement of labor from one area to another, from one country to another can generate imbalances in the unemployment rate. Due to the enlargement integration process of the E.U., Central and Eastern Europe need to manage social disruptions between national social policies. The European Union is going through a crisis because of the lack of credibility and confidence of European citizens in Community institutions, which led to the deepening division of European citizens on solving common European problems. As such, there is a tendency for some highly developed Member states to take a new approach towards globalization, given that euroscepticism and populism has increased among political parties; the crisis is deepened by the Syrian refugee crisis and terrorism threats. Since the Treaty of Rome (1957) was signed, all the way to the Lisbon Treaty (2007), the European Union has made significant progress on the path of economic integration; as a novelty, as the Lisbon Treaty stipulated in art. 50, a member even choose to withdraw from the European Union

Keywords: European citizens; unemployment; Schengen space; social protection; free movement of people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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