Is a supranational strategy for social inclusion possible?

Abstract

Social policy at the supranational EU-level has come more in focus in recent years. With the development of the open method of coordination also to be used in the area of social inclusion it becomes central to the understanding of the European development to grasp these changes, and, to analyze whether this can be seen as a move towards convergences in social policy approach. The paper analyze the concept of social exclusion, but first and foremost in relation to the formulating in embryo of a supranational social policy in this field – especially witnessed by the national plans for social inclusion and the dilemma between supranational wishes for a European social policy and nation states willingness to transform powers to the supranational level.