Welfare Policy from Below
Subtitle: Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe
Contributors: Heinz Steinert (Editor); Arno Pilgram (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780754630630
Subjects: Equal opportunities; Social welfare & social services; Public Policy - Social Policy; Minority Studies - General; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Public welfare; Marginality, Social; Social policy
First sentence: Much of the contemporary discussion of 'Europe' in the national press of different European member-states, as well as in other media of the new Europe, focuses, very heavily, on the one hand, on the fast-approaching launch of the common currency in eleven of the member-states, and, on the other, to a slightly lesser extent, on the prospects for the enlargement of the liberalised European market (of 370 million people and consumers) to embrace the so-called Visegrad Quartet, thereby adding a further 110 million.2