Technological Shifts and the Social Partners : Is the European Semester Heading Towards a Social Europe?

• This chapter describes and analyses the involvement of trade unions and employers’ organisations in the European Semester (ES) in EU member states. The ES is an important governance mechanism available to the EU to guide economic development in light of an imminent technological shift and, at the same time, involves organisations representing both workers and employers. The analysis shows that the ES could work as a bridge between growth and social reforms where the social partners are involved to ensure that all interests are considered in the governance of EU economic policy. However, the chapter also shows that there are substantive differences among the EU member states as to the extent to which if and when the social partners have a say, when they are involved in the process and whether governments listen to the social partners.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Statskunskap

Political Science

Ekonomisk historia

Economic History

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