This paper deals with the flexicurity approach as developed at the European level. It firstly reviews the emergenge of this EU perspective on combining social and economic goals. Secondly the paper discusses how the concept of flexicurity pathways responds to the necessity of combining these...

On 30th May 2013, the so-called Two Pack entered into force in all Eurozone Member States. Its Regulations seek to reinforce the rules for economic policy coordination and add to the combined analysis and assessment of budgetary, economic, employment and social policies within the context of the...

New economic coordination has changed the landscape of EU governance (Amtenbrink, 2012). Its impact on the EU's social dimension is topic of political and scholarly debate. Some tend to argue that the EU has lost track of its social aspirations (e.g. Janssen, 2013; Watt, 2013; Clauwaert and Schömann,...