Stato, economia e politiche sociali nella crisi europea

The essay examines the role of the nation-State in the European Union economic system, especially in the present crisis involving most of the European countries. In particular, it analyses the Soziale Marktwirshaft model as established in the European Treaties. The economic sovereignty erosion cut down the chances of State intervention in the domestic economic affairs, thus reducing the social rights protection system. Furthermore, the essay remarks the necessity of revaluing the function of the State, for example, in public services field, not restoring the eighteenth century interventionist State but developing a new liberal humanism