The Impact of Eurozone Governance on Welfare State Stability

Andor, László

doi:10.1017/9781108235174.007

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“…Negative social outcomes span from an austerity-driven increase in youth unemployment, especially in high debt countries (Marques and Hörisch, 2020), to the worsening of gender parity (Perugini et al, 2019). In this context, the welfare state has been a key target of the budgetary diet (Crespy, 2015;De La Porte and Heins, 2015;Andor, 2017) to the extent that austerity policies may downsize "social citizenship" to the altar of budgetary prudence (Greer & Jarman, 2018, p. 76). Primarily in the periphery EU pressure supported reforms liberalising the labour market and curtailing the generosity of benefits (e.g.…”

Section: The Health Legacy Of the Great Recession And Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

Ceron

Palermo²

2021

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Covid-19 highlights the inadequacy of EU governance cross-border challenges, especially transnational health challenges, supporting the call for a Health Union. Health policy remains a near-exclusive national competence whose budget was heavily impacted by EU-driven austerity, especially in Southern Europe. The work provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the pandemic case evidencing the limits of the current governance framework and tabled reform proposals. The analysis contributes an extended understanding of the implications of the lack of an effective EU public health competence. We assess comparatively (austerity-induced) geographic heterogeneities in health-care preparedness, outbreak, crisis management and outcomes, delineating the extent to which inequalities remain in the absence of a Health Union. Findings evidence an empirically grounded case for sovereignty pooling in the core transnational domain of public health while providing a preliminary policy evaluation of the proposal for a Health Union.

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Section: The Health Legacy Of the Great Recession And Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

Ceron

Palermo²

2021

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“…The preferred option does not involve direct transfers from the EU to unemployed individuals. Rather, states would contribute to an insurance fund, which could be accessed by those countries most affected by external shocks and flow into national schemes (Andor, 2017). Even though the idea was mentioned in the 2018 Franco‐German roadmap for the Euro area, it has not yet materialized as an EU policy.…”

Section: The Pending Agenda For a More Social And Democratic Emumentioning

confidence: 99%