Rethinking social security in the European Union

Extending fundamental universal rights

Bibliographic Data

ID9970495
AuthorsChantal EuzéAby (Université Pierre Mendes France, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume57
Issue1
Pages85-103
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Security Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-871X • E-ISSN: 1468-246X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0020-871x.2004.00182.x
OpenAlexW3123654721
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

Beyond the threat of systems of social protection in the European Union contracting, the issue arises of their restructuring and alignment. Given the common challenges they all face (ageing populations, family instability, unemployment, social exclusion and job insecurity), the priority for the reform debate is the redefinition of fundamental rights and the need to draw a distinction between conditional and universal rights. This article emphasizes the need to combine social security's redistributive and integration functions on the basis of three principles: the activation of benefits; the individualization and universality of certain rights; and the promotion of equality of opportunity across the life cycle. If applied to all member States, this approach would in addition facilitate convergence among their social security systems

Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · European union · Face (sociological concept · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International trade · Law and economics · Political science · Promotion (chess · Restructuring · Social exclusion · Social protection · Social rights · Social science · Social security · Sociology · Unemployment · Universality (dynamical systems · Employment and Welfare Studies · European Law and Migration · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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