Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in European Union Law

Aranguiz, Ane

doi:10.4324/9781003222125

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“…While the EU may make better progress towards its target as compared with previous initiatives in the field, substantial obstacles remain both throughout and within if efforts to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion are to move beyond their current third-order status, which can be described as simply muddling through. In the context of the current literature and debates, the findings provide further evidence of increased activity in the field in recent years (Shahini et al, 2022) and its potential (Aranguiz, 2022;Shahini et al, 2022). Importantly, it provides a unique perspective by highlighting obstacles to reducing the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and how they might be overcome.…”

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“…This article examines the EU's attempts to tackle the number of those who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion both historically and during its most recent spike of activity, which aims to reduce the number by at least 15 million by 2030 as part of the Commission's 2021 Action Plan for the Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). It thereby speaks to the literature on the governance of the European social dimension (Copeland, 2020;Crespy and Menz, 2015;Graziano and Hartlapp, 2019;Mailand, 2021;Vesan et al, 2021), as well as the literature specific to the field (Aranguiz, 2022;Armstrong, 2010;Copeland and Daly, 2012;Jessoula and Madama, 2018;Shahini et al, 2022). The approach takes inspiration from two analytical dimensions found within the literature to analyse historically the policy area and the extent to which the EU is likely to meet its ambitious target.…”

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Poverty and social exclusion in the EU: third-order priorities, hybrid governance and the future potential of the field

Copeland

2023

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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EU leaders have agreed to reduce the number of people who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion by 15 million (including at least five million children) by 2030. This article explores this ambitious target and analyses the positioning of the field throughout the EU’s broader governance hierarchy, as well as the governance arrangements within the field. It finds that throughout such governance arrangements, the issue of being at risk of poverty or social exclusion is largely dealt with by intergovernmental agreements and is thereby a third-order priority for the EU, with economic integration first-order and employment policy second-order. Meanwhile, within the field EU governance arrangements are currently being transformed to further encourage the Member States to take action. While this is a significant development, the overall ability of the EU to reduce the number of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion requires the field to move beyond its current third-order status.

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Poverty and social exclusion in the EU: third-order priorities, hybrid governance and the future potential of the field

Copeland

2023

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…The limited number of areas in which the EU has intervened, providing legal resources to its citizens, is also reflected in the evolution of enforcement resources. In this respect, as observed by Aranguiz (2022), the Court has interpreted only a few of the fields listed in Article 153, mostly in the context of the employment directives on health and safety and working conditions. A systematic look at the Court of Justice of the EU judgments in the area of social and employment policies from 2009 to 2022 (Figure 1) confirms that the bulk of EU case-law in the employment policy domain concerns non-discrimination (207 cases), employment protection legislation (154 cases) and organisation of work and working conditions (79 cases).…”

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EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

Huguenot-Noël

Corti²

2023

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When does the EU employment growth agenda also serve social progress? Scholars concerned with the equality/efficiency trade-off generally look at the EU as an agenda-setter. Little attention has yet been paid to its role as direct provider of social rights. Building on a data set of 71 EU measures and 317 judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, this article evaluates the extent to which EU employment policies helped to advance social citizenship by assessing the scope and distribution of individual entitlements over time (2009–2022). Our findings show that, after almost two decades of silence, the EU not only expanded the scope of its influence over individual social rights but also took an inclusive turn, driven by more ‘universalising’ and ‘capacitating’ initiatives. Looking ahead, better monitoring of the distributive profile of EU initiatives indirectly affecting rights production (such as SURE or the Recovery and Resilience Facility) would help to ensure that this shift increasingly benefits those needing it the most.

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“…At the same time, this extended social OMC was an autonomous process compared to economic policy coordination in the EU organised as the European Semester. After 2010, the two areas of coordination were merged under the new European Semester and Europe 2020 Strategy (Aranguiz, 2022, Chapter 2). For CSOs from new Members States interested in influencing poverty and social assistance, this entailed a constant process of learning and adjusting to changing social OMC institutional designs.…”

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Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022

Szarfenberg

2022

Int J Soc Welfare

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The article presents the results of a case study based on participant observation of a policy venue which was established in Poland as part of the implementation of the European Semester (ES) in 2012. The long period (2012-2022) and the rich material collected by the insider in the studied venue (as a representative of over 30 civil society organisations affiliated to EAPN Poland) provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into the participation of social actors in the coordination of economic and social policy in the European Union after 2010. The main research question addressed in the article is: why did social actors gain influence on the agenda of the policy venue, but not on national social policy? Social actors participating in the European Semester in Poland, despite strong and competent representation in the policy venue under consideration, and despite their collaboration with other stakeholders, did not directly influence national poverty reduction policies. However, they strongly influenced the agenda of the policy venue, establishing poverty as a permanent item in the agenda of the subsequent ES cycles 2014-2019. The explanation of this course of action is the institutional framework of the policy venue studied in this article, the policy advocacy strategy adopted by the social actors within it in 2013-2015 and the institutional events triggered by the pandemic in 2020-2022.

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Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in European Union Law

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Poverty and social exclusion in the EU: third-order priorities, hybrid governance and the future potential of the field

Poverty and social exclusion in the EU: third-order priorities, hybrid governance and the future potential of the field

EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?

Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022

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