Beyond Notre Europe | 23/06/2011 

Document by F.Vandenbroucke, , A.Hemerijck, and B.Palier, published by the OSE, Paper Series, Opinion paper No. 5, May 2011, 25p. (2011)

In this Opinion Paper, three of the leading EU social scientists argue that important long-term EU social and economic policy goals must not fall victim to short-term policy considerations triggered by the banking crisis that hit the global economy in 2008. They encapsulate these long-term goals in the notion of a “social investment imperative” and warn for the dangerous mix of welfare chauvinism and fiscal austerity nationalism dividing Europe.