Social protection in the European Union. Empirical study

Abstract

Although the focus of the EU is to increase economic performance and efficiency of the common market, in the last decade, the social issue has taken a new dimension and importance in the political agenda of the EU. This material realizes an analysis from a budgetary perspective of social protection systems in the EU-25 countries, emphasizing both the elements that distinguish them as well as the ones that approach them, rated as clear signs of convergence.social protection, social reform, european convergence