flashlight europe 03/2014: European Social Policy? Prospects for the New EU Commission.

Marianne Thyssen is not going to have an easy time. The financial and economic crises in the past few years have left their mark on many EU member states. Today 5.7 million young people are unemployed. And the EU is a long way away from attaining its own "inclusive growth" targets. Poverty has not only increased in absolute terms. So have the differences between the EU members. In the eurozone a social divide is hard on the heels of the growing economic disparities between north and south.