EU Social policies: Challenges and opportunities for Italy |
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| Authors: | Tito Boeri Maurizio Ferrera |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Professor of Economics , Bocconi University , Milan;2. Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti;3. Professor, of Public Policy and Administration , University of Pavia;4. Director of the Centre for Comparative Political Research , Bocconi University , Milan |
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| Abstract: | The European Council's 2008 ‘Immigration Pact’ has been touted by its main protagonist, the French government, as a turning point in EU migration policymaking. In one respect at least, the French are not exaggerating. The Pact represents a challenge to a key assumption underpinning European integration, namely that communitarised policymaking procedures are the best means of achieving truly common policies: Paris presented the intergovernmental Pact as a means of succeeding where communitarised decision-making has failed – in achieving the goal of a coherent common migration policy. However, analysis shows the French claims to be largely unfounded: although the European Council might theoretically have played a useful role here, in practice its efforts will add little to the achievement of a truly common policy. |
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