Safeguarding ‘well-being for all’: now or never
This new EAPN Mag discusses our welfare states, their future and the possible alternatives at our disposal, should there be political will to support them.Francine Mestrum, Coordinator of Global Social Justice, opens the discussion, on social protection as a common ideal. You then get an insight on the attack on the welfare state in 4 bail-out countries, namely Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania. France, the UK and Macedonia, as a candidate country to the EU, get also a particular focus. 3 other organisations, the European Public Services Union (EPSU), Caritas and the ILO, have also contributed to this Mag and share the conviction that Change is possible, should political leaders want it!
CONTENTS
- Social Protection as a Common Ideal? by Francine Mestrum, Coordinator of Global Justice
- The Attacks on the Welfare State in Bail-Out Countries, by Katherine Duffy, EAPN UK and Amana Ferro, EAPN Secretariat
- What kind of welfare state does France want to be?, by Jeanne Dietrich, EAPN France
- Social Protection in a candidate country to the EU, by Mila Carovksa, Macedonian Anti-Poverty Platform (MAPP)
- UK welfare after the crisis, by Katherine Duffy and Peter Kelly, EAPN UK
- Change is possible, should the EU want it, by Penny Clarke, Head of EU Policy, EPSU
- The Role of the EU: from rhetoric to action, high time to walk the talk!, by Jorge nuño Mayer, Secretary General, Caritas
- Basic social protection for all is affordable nearly everywhere, by Rudi Delarue, former Director of ILO EU and Benelux Office
Download the Mag here in English – French – Bulgarian – Polish – Macedonian
