Why European social democrats turned their backs on ‘social Europe’
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 31 Number 4 (2023)
Why European social democrats turned their backs on ‘social Europe’
Aurélie Andry pages 30-38
Abstract
After the 1968 uprisings, European left parties responded to the crisis of social democracy and of Keynesianism by proposing more radical reforms to be carried out at a European level. The failure of this ambitious ‘social Europe’ project and the affirmation, instead, of a neoliberal Europe holds lessons for today’s left – whether or not it still believes that the EU can be changed.
To cite this article
Aurélie Andry (2023) Why European social democrats turned their backs on ‘social Europe’, Renewal, 31(4), 30-38