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The Road to Social Europe

In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how solidarity can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the development of political-cultural processes since the nineteenth century, showing how social protection and social justice have gradually become interwoven with systems of social protection, or welfare states.

Grounded on extensive empirical research conducted in many EU countries and in the European Commissions administration over 20 years, the book provides a cultural analysis of welfare systems in Europe. It also presents an original enquiry into the importance of languages for politics in Europe, for the politics of welfare and for sociological research. It shows how sociological and ethnographic analysis can help in understanding the current and future challenges of European integration that rely unilaterally on functional economics.

This in-depth sociological analysis of European diversity will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars of sociology, political science, political economy and European studies.

Jean-Claude Barbier is CNRS Research Director at Paris 1 Panton-Sorbonne University, France. His research interests include European integration, EU social policy and employment policies in Europe and the USA.

Routledge/European Sociological Association Studies in European Societies
Series editors: Thomas P. Boje, Max Haller, Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward

1 European Societies
Fusion or fission?
Edited by Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steebergen and Sylvia Walby

2 The Myth of Generational Conflict
The family and State in ageing societies
Edited by Sara Arber and Claudine Attias-Donfut

3 The End of the Welfare State?
Responses to State retrenchment
Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby and Stefan Svallfors

4 Will Europe Work?
Integration, employment and the social order
Edited by Martin Kohli and Mojca Novak

5 Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies
Edited by Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward

6 Young Europeans, Work and Family
Futures in transition
Edited by Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen and Janet Smithsen

7 Autobiographies of Transformation
Lives in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha

8 Europe and Asia Beyond East and West
Edited by Gerard Delanty

9 Cultural Overstretch
Differences between old and new member states of the EU and Turkey
Edited by Jrgen Gerhards

10 Social Class in Europe
An introduction to the European socio-economic classification
Edited by David Rose and Eric Harrison

11 Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society
Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci and Carlo Ruzza

12 Muslims in 21st Century Europe
Structural and cultural perspectives
Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

13 Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe
The catching up a myth or a strategy?
Edited by Ilona Pln Kovcs and Dagmar Kutsar

14 Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads
Edited by Li Bennich-Bjrkman and Aili Aarelaid-Tart

15 Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe
Expert knowledge and scientific planning in European regional development
Sebastian M. Bttner

16 The Road to Social Europe
A contemporary approach to political cultures and diversity in Europe
Jean-Claude Barbier, translated by Susan Gruenheck Taponier

Forthcoming :
Religion, Identity and Politics
Germany and Turkey in Interaction
Haldun Glalp and Gnter Seufert

The Road to Social Europe

A contemporary approach to political
cultures and diversity in Europe

Jean-Claude Barbier
Translated by Susan Gruenheck Taponier

First published 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business

2013 Jean-Claude Barbier

The right of Jean-Claude Barbier to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Barbier, Jean-Claude.
The road to social Europe: a contemporary approach to political cultures and diversity in Europe/Jean-Claude Barbier.
p. cm. (Routledge/European sociological association studies in European societies; 16)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Welfare stateEurope. 2. EuropeSocial policy. 3. Public welfare Europe. I. Title.
HN373.5.B374 2013
320.513094dc23
2012004447

ISBN: 978-0-415-68888-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-32784-5 (ebk)

To Paul, Joseph, Simon, Lila, Sarah, and Raphal
To Sibylle

Contents

PART I Social protection in Europe: National and/or European?
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PART II Toward a sociological understanding of cultural diversity in Europe
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PART III Political cultures and European integration
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Abbreviations

BEPG	Broad Economic Policy Guidelines
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CJEU	Court of Justice of the European Union
Commission	Commission of the European Union
Council	Council of the European Union
DG	Directorate-General (of the Commission)
ECB	European Central Bank
ECJ	European Court of Justice
EES	European Employment Strategy
EFSF	European Financial Stability Facility
ERDF	European Regional Development Fund
ESF	European Social Fund
ESM	European Stability Mechanism
ETUC	European Trade Union Confederation
EU	European Union
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
OMC	Open Method of Coordination
PES	Party of European Socialists
Plan D	Plan for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate
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