Is the "European model" broken?
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mercoledì, ottobre 19, 2005
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Un interessante studio sui modelli economici e sociali presenti in Europa. Martin Wolf analizza la questione europea sul Financial Times chiedendosi Is the 'European model' broken? (il testo è riportato gratuitamente dal webzine Unions-Firms-Markets)"To many outsiders the answer is a strong yes. Increasing numbers of insiders are beginning to agree. They fear that a supposedly savage Anglo-Saxon liberalism will overwhelm the civilised European economy. Happily, this dichotomy is grossly oversimplified.
...After many disasters, Europeans struck a successful balance between individual effort and collective responsibility after the second world war. All western Europeans share a commitment to what is, by global standards, generous, state-organised social welfare. But André Sapir, the
Belgian economist, notes there are at least four quite distinct models of how to do so."
Le parole e l’articolo di Martin Wolf si riferiscono ad una recente ricerca Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models (pdf) presentata nell’ultimo ECOFIN Informal Meeting di Manchester da Andre Sapir, economista dell’European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics di Bruxelles.
Il lavoro dell’economista belga si sofferma ad analizzare il passato e il presente del continente, dividendo l’Europa in quattro modelli sociali: modello nordico, anglosassone, della Renania e mediterraneo. Tracciando successivamente la via per un futuro di coesione e sviluppo:
“the global economy of the twenty-first century is characterised by rapid changes which create both threats and opportunities. The biggest challenge for the European economy is to become sufficiently flexible so as to avail of the opportunities and surmount the threats. This requires, above all, reforming labour market and social policies.”
“the notion of “European social model” is misleading. There are in reality different European social models, with different features and different performance in terms of efficiency and
equity. Models that are not efficient are not sustainable and must be reformed. The combined GDP of countries with inefficient models accounts for two-thirds of the entire EU and 90 per cent of the eurozone.”
"Labour market and social policy reforms are a matter for the Member States alone, not for the
European Union. Nonetheless, there are some benefits in coordinating these reforms with other necessary reforms, especially for the countries in the eurozone which share a common currency. A two-handed strategy combining reforms at EU and national levels would be best. The Lisbon Agenda tried this but is rapidly failing."
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