The Future of European Welfare States

Review by Dexter Whitfield of European Welfare States after the Crisis: Changing Public Attitudes (by Policy Network, Institute for Public Policy Research and The Foundation for European Progressive Studies) in The Spokesman, No. 120, May, 2013 โ€“ The paper does not recognise the financialisation, personalisation, marketisation and privatisation of public services and the welfare state, let alone consider them a โ€˜challengeโ€™ โ€œThe reason perhaps lies in the fact that these policies, designed mainly by the last Labour government and accelerated by the Coalition, are intended to privatise the โ€˜oldโ€™ welfare state in order to release public money to more fully address the casualties of, and the needs, of capital.โ€

Published on 22nd April 2013. Last updated 31st May 2017.