Spotlight - ‘The best on Earth’: Can weak economic growth undermine Europe’s ‘very sophisticated social system’?
- Can Europe continue to sustain one of the world's most ambitious social models while falling increasingly behind its major economic competitors?
- For Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner for Trade and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, this question lies at the heart of the continent's mounting economic and political tensions.
- Lamy looks beyond the immediate turmoil in France to identify a deeper European predicament: a widening disconnect between the continent's social commitments and its capacity to generate the economic growth needed to sustain them.
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- Can Europe continue to sustain one of the world's most ambitious social models while falling increasingly behind its major economic competitors?
- For Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner for Trade and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, this question lies at the heart of the continent's mounting economic and political tensions.
- Lamy looks beyond the immediate turmoil in France to identify a deeper European predicament: a widening disconnect between the continent's social commitments and its capacity to generate the economic growth needed to sustain them.
Sources: France 24