Dieses Papier untersucht Veränderungen in der Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik der Europäischen Union nach der Vertiefung der wirtschaftspolitischen Zusammenarbeit in Europa. Dabei wird die These vertreten, dass die Veränderungen in der wirtschaftspolitischen Zusammenarbeit zu einer Zunahme...

This paper sets out to explore the changes in the EU's coordination of employment and social policies after the introduction of stricter economic governance. It hypothesises that new economic governance has introduced characteristics of hard law into the soft law coordination cycles of...

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,...