The EU needs to move more towards the US social model if it is to close the productivity gap with America and reach its economic goals, the Dutch economics minister and Chairman of the EU's competitive council said today (7 October).
Speaking at an event organised by the Lisbon Council - a Brussels-based pro-reform think tank - Laurens Jan Brinkhorst said, "I will argue that the updated European Social Model should differ distinctly from the current one. It will inevitably resemble the...
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