CAN THE EUROPEAN UNION 2020 STRATEGY DELIVER ON SOCIAL INCLUSION?
CROP/UiB Global WORKING PAPER SERIES on Global Challenges, Issue #3. Author: Maria Petmesidou
This series seeks to disseminate research focused on issues such as poverty and inequality, sustainability, and other relevant global Challenges.
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ABSTRACT
In 2010, amidst the financial and sovereign debt crisis, the launching of a novel European strategy for “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth" signaled a significant step in the European coordination strategies for tackling poverty and social exclusion. Crucial in this respect is the unprecedented prominence accorded to a quantified goal in poverty reduction across the EU, to be achieved by 2020, along a supranational governance process that sets the ambitious aim of bringing the social field within the framework of EU financial and economic governance. In this paper, I critically examine how this new strategy has fared so far and what the expectations are for its effectiveness in combating poverty and social exclusion within the set time frame.
