This article offers a critical account of the 'social'in the Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the
new poverty target and the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The …

As the successor to the decade-long Lisbon agenda, Europe 2020 is the European Union's
10-year strategy for 'smart','sustainable'and 'inclusive'growth. This article analyses the …

Abstract Europe 2020 and the European Semester signal a major change of direction in EU
social policy with new governance arrangements, policy orientations and politics. This paper …

Is in-work poverty a low-wage or an unemployment problem, and is it the same problem all
across Europe? Because of the definitional ambiguity, we really do not know. In this article …

The men who negotiated the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s viewed social policy as the
exclusive province of the member states; European Union (EU) intervention would only be …

As awareness of the limitations of relying solely on income to measure poverty has become
more widespread, attention has been increasingly focused on multi-dimensional …

The financial and economic crisis has increased attention on EU social policy, yet little policy
change has been realized. Drawing on Easton's political system approach, we differentiate …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of material deprivation in European Union
countries in 2016 from both a local and a global perspective. The Technique for Order …

This paper provides a critical analysis of the concepts of poverty and social exclusion in
three parts. First, it examines the relationship between poverty and social exclusion, a …

Social and economic policies are inextricably linked with population health outcomes in
Europe, yet few datasets are able to fully explore and compare this relationship across …