Europe's welfare systems: Time for reinvention - Emerging Europe

Europe's welfare systems: Time for reinvention - Emerging Europe

An ageing continent must find new financing models in era of digital and climate transformation. Europe’s welfare states, long the envy of the world, now face an existential challenge. The financing models that sustained generous social safety nets throughout the post-war era are buckling under modern pressures. A fundamental reinvention is needed, according to researchers from the EU-funded Project WeLaR, who have highlighted these concerns in …

How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe

Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.