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...

Following ECB-president Draghi's remark that the European Social Model does no longer exist and the crisis can only be overcome through a combination of austerity and structural reform, this paper examines the consequences of austerity measures and structural reforms adopted during the crisis in...

"Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than...