Social governance in the European Union: Managing complex systems
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12-05-2020
Whereas economic governance is now undertaken in the EU through a regulated, 'hard' framework, there is no equivalent framework for social governance. At present, social governance in the EU functions mainly within the 'soft', unregulated realms, although it is also marked by some 'hard' governance mechanisms. This paper aims to give an overview of the social aspects of EU governance. It looks at existing EU social governance mechanisms and tools, including their current state of play, the debates that surround them and possible avenues for their further development. It is an updated and revised edition of a publication from November 2017: PE 614.579.
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- economic and social cohesion
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- EU finance
- European construction
- European Semester
- European Social Fund
- European social policy
- European Structural and Investment Funds
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- executive power and public service
- FINANCE
- governance
- LAW
- monetary economics
- open method of coordination
- POLITICS
- self-regulation
- social affairs
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- social situation
- sources and branches of the law
- structural policy