The European Union Social Tools in Question
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Cédric Rio [1]
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[1] Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CMH)
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- Localización: Reducing Inequalities. A Challenge for the European Union? / Renato Miguel do Carmo (ed. lit.), Cédric Rio (ed. lit.), Márton Medgyesi (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-65005-0, págs. 137-147
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Resumen
The purpose of this chapter is not only to focus on the European Union tools in the social domain, but also to discuss their scope. Social tools might exist, but they are not very ambitious and clearly insufficient to act effectively against social inequality among Europeans. We discuss successively (1) the impact of the Regional Policy, (2) the European dialogue on social goals, (3) the recognition of social rights at the European level, and (4) we propose, finally, to recognise more ambitious social rights and implement a redistributive policy between the states which guarantees such rights, thanks to which it would be possible to develop ambitious social mechanisms at the EU level without threatening the diversity of national social systems.
