EUROPEAN UNION AND ROMANIAN POLICIES ON WOMEN’S SOCIAL EXCLUSION AFTER THE LISBON TREATY
Journal Title: Challenges of the Knowledge Society - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 0
Abstract
The Lisbon Treaty marked many important changes in European Union’s institutional make-up and policymaking. One particularly important field of inquiry, especially in light of the current financial crisis, is European policy-making regarding social exclusion in general and women’s social exclusion in particular. First, through my paper I aim to answer three interconnected questions: 1) Has the Lisbon Treaty influenced policy-making regarding social exclusion, in the context of the current financial crisis? 2) What were the specific changes ensued? 3) IF/How is the European trend translated in Romanian national policies concerning women’s social exclusion? Second I aim to sketch several recommendations for addressing women’s social exclusion in light of the Lisbon Treaty. Since social exclusion is a vast domain I will limit myself in discussing primarily issues connected to women’s participation in the labour market, as well as participation in decision-making. In this sense I will use policy documents, available data and academic papers concerning the changes bought on by the Lisbon treaty, the main theoretical contributions in the field of women’s social exclusion and recent data obtained through a series of conferences on the Lisbon Treaty and Romania’s Role in the Process of Deepening European Integration 2010. The conferences, where I was a key speaker for one of the panels, were developed by the Romanian Government- the Department for European Affairs, The National School of Political and Administative Studies and the Academic Club of European Studies and provided an opportunity for conducting a small pilot-research providing data on the response of various social groups to the changes brought on by the Lisbon Treaty. Both the theme and the analysis of the paper are relevant and current, focusing on the interplay between the EU and Romanian policies after the Lisbon Treaty in the context of the present financial crisis.
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ALICE IANCU
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