SOCIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT COORDINATION IN THE VORTEX OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

The reform of the legal framework of Economic Governance has made emerge in a new light the unresolved tension between economic and social content of the European project. The expansive force of economic policy coordination has altered the way of implementation of the social and employment coordination competences and their interrelationships. The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in which the reforms have contributed to the loss of identity of the social and employment coordination, and its subsequent absorption into the economic sphere, to conclude with a brief reflection about the immediate future of these competences.