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Title: | A social Europe without a social conscience : the case of Malta |
Authors: | Vella, Mary Grace |
Keywords: | Globalization -- Europe Globalization -- Malta Equality -- Europe Equality -- Malta Conscience -- Europe Conscience -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2024 |
Publisher: | Koninklijke Brill bv |
Citation: | Vella, M.G. (2024). A social Europe without a social conscience : the case of Malta. Innovation in the Social Sciences, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/27730611-bja10032 |
Abstract: | Founded on the underlying principles of equality, solidarity and cohesion, with economic growth envisioned as a vehicle to social well-being, Europe has emerged as a significant competitor in the global economy. Despite the subsidiarity principle, member states’ social protection systems are increasingly being driven by the European neoliberal agenda. Malta is no exception: its socialist welfare regime, based on strong government interventions and universal provision, has progressively given way to a more regulated, privatised and means-tested model. The globalisation–inequality–social protection nexus suggests that Malta’s high gdp growth and widening inequalities are not reflected in a reciprocal outlay in social protection expenditure. In a context where the social well-being of all is increasingly becoming subordinated to the economic well-being of the few, one questions to what extent the social model has remained a fundamental pillar of the EU and whether, through Europeanisation, Malta is concomitantly losing its social conscience. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124004 |
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