European Social Policy

Course Code
Ε3500Ε
ECTS Credits
5
Semester
Semester 5th / 7th
Course Category
Professor

Venieris Dimitrios (SEP Department)

Course Description

The emergence of European Social Policy (ESP) is linked to the need for transnational social regulation in the era of economic globalisation. ESP is linked to the study of processes such as European integration, transnational redistribution of resources, the role of European institutions and the course of European integration. ESP refers primarily to supranational social regulation emanating from international organisations – notably the European Union, the Council of Europe and the International Labour Organisation. Gradually, the emergence of the need for transnational social regulation of the capitalist economy, the weakening of national social policy and the strengthening of the interaction between national and transnational welfare, give the ESP an increasingly critical role for the European perspective in the 21st century. In this context, the themes of the courses are shaped, which include questions on the concept and evolution of European Social Policy, the fields of European Social Policy, European Social Rights, the prospects of Social Europe and the challenges of the European Social Model.