The paper argues that the sustainability of the European Social Model (ESM) is under considerable strain as a result of uneven social and economic policies. In order to maintain its distinct character of balancing economic and social interests, increased efforts have to be made to conduct social...

The European Union created the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in 2007 to co-fund, together with EU member states, policies to help workers negatively affected by globalisation find new jobs. The EGF was a political acknowledgment that the EU, which has exclusive competence over...