Five minutes with Tito Boeri: ‘We don’t just need a welfare state in Europe, we also need a welfare union’

Are Europe’s welfare states fit to meet the demands brought on by the financial crisis? In an interview with EUROPP’s Managing Editor Stuart Brown, Tito Boeri discusses the need for a ‘stress test’ of the European welfare state, why citizens in southern European countries have been much more susceptible to poverty during the crisis, and the role that EU cooperation should play in providing a more effective safety net for European citizens.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The welfare state after the great recession http://www.europeansources.info/record/forum-the-welfare-state-after-the-great-recession/

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