Economy‘The best on Earth’: Can weak growth undermine Europe’s ‘very sophisticated social system’?
Can Europe sustain one of the world’s most ambitious social models as it falls further behind major economic competitors? Pascal Lamy, a former European trade commissioner and World Trade Organization director-general, says the widening gap between Europe’s social commitments and its ability to generate the growth needed to fund them sits at the heart of mounting economic and political tensions.
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‘The best on Earth’: Can weak growth undermine Europe’s ‘very sophisticated social system’?
Economy