A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)
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Laurent Warlouzet, « A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993) », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10.1017/S0960777322000479
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Between 1969 and 1993, a genuine ‘European welfare state’ was forged at the level of the European Economic Community (EEC), even though this expression was not used per se. After a definition of the welfare state as a three-pronged set of policies, the article develops first the flourishing period in the 1970s, when many ambitious ideas such as a common reduction of working hours, or the control of multinationals, emerged. In a second step, it explains the failure of this project due to the neoliberal backlash of the early 1980s and the division of the welfarist coalition. Ultimately, the whole project was rekindled as a flanking wing of the internal market programme when the latter was launched in 1985. Hence, when the internal market opened up in 1993, a very unique kind of European welfare existed at the international level. It was less redistributive than that of national welfare states and more geared towards the management of common norms.