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Carte blanche: « A la recherche de l'Europe sociale oubliée » - Nicolas Verschueren
2024
Par Nicolas Verschueren, Associate Professor in Contemporary History, Director of Mondes Modernes & Contemporains, Université libre de Bruxelles.
The question of Social Europe, a persistent blurry expression, has been on the agenda of European debates since the origins of European Integration. This carte blanche aims to highlight first social policy projects, the blueprint of a forgotten Social Europe. The history of the failures of this Social Europe reveals the nature of the first European institutions and theirinabilities to be truly fertile ground for ambitious European social policies. Looking at the failure of a European status formineworkers,we are able to observe the ambiguities of a European projectwhich oscillates between solidarity and competition among European citizens andworkers.