The Welfare State After the Great Recession.The economic crisis has given rise to significant challenges to the welfare state. Given that welfare expenses account for a large proportion of all state spending in the member countries of the European Union, reducing government spending means...

This chapter argues that the one-sidedness of the integration process, its promotion of ever deeper economic integration, has contributed to the legitimacy crisis with which the EU is confronted at present. This crisis has, in the course of the efforts to tame the financial crisis through...

The outbreak and, above all, the continuing economic crisis and recession stress the difficult emergence of social rights both within and outside national borders. Welfare policies have undergone profound changes, inextricably linked to the economic crisis. Even as the legal protection of social...