Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations. Donald Trump ...

A major reason so many refugees want to settle in Sweden, Germany, and other Northern European countries is that they have generous welfare-state programs for non-citizens. Even so, some refugees ...

An ageing continent must find new financing models in era of digital and climate transformation. Europe’s welfare states, ...

But Europe’s migrant population has been growing fast over the past several years, too fast for political systems that built welfare states when their countries were much more homogeneous.

The aim of the course is to apply concepts of economics and political economy to social policies in European welfare states. The lectures establish the theoretical context, summarise the findings of ...

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