L'Europa aspira a diventare uno Stato sociale?
Cecchini, Stefania
2021-01-01
Abstract
The work deals with the change in the European political direction expressed by the Pro-gram 2019-2024 of the European Commission, the work on the Conference on the Future of Europe and the response to the health crisis by Covid-19. More precisely, the essay investigates the repercussions on the regulatory and institutional structure of the Union determined by the taking root of a social matrix informed by the principle of solidarity prescribed by the Treaties, long contradicted by policies based on the primacy of the principle of competition. Having reconstructed the will of European institutions to reinforce social solidarity, which is the foundation of the von der Leyen Commission's Agenda and the work of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the analysis also takes into consideration the European response to the Covid-19 health crisis. It is believed that the questioning of some of the cornerstones of traditional European economic law, in favor of the solidarity based approach that led to the adoption of the Next Generation EU and other measures financed through recourse to debt, contains a transformative potential capable of combining economic recovery with a rethinking of fiscal and budgetary rules. Given the unrealistic nature of a mere return to the pre-emergency institutional and regulatory set-up, the work questions, in a de iure condendo perspective, the fate of the principles of balanced budgets and maintenance of price stability provided by the TFEU, intergovernmental agreements (such as the so-called Fiscal Compact) and the Constitutions which, like ours, have adapted to those principles. The essay concludes by arguing that this change in political direction, even though it does not yet make it possible to speak of a European welfare state, at least highlights the Union's aspiration to become one.File | Size | Format | |
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