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Will More Integration Save Europe’s Social Model?

Gros, Daniel, (2013), ‘Will More Integration Save Europe’s Social Model?’, www.project-syndicate.org, 5 January.

At high-level gatherings of the European Union elite, one often hears the following type of statement: “Europe must integrate and centralize economic governance in order to defend its social model in an age of globalization.” European Commission President José Manuel Barroso Αnd his counterpart at the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, are particularly keen on this argument