Toward a Europeanization of Social Policies?

This article reviews four approaches to europeanisation: the study of “Brussels activities”, the study of “Brussels interventions”, the analysis of “structural imbalance” and the study of national political-economic adaptations. In the Scandinavian Welfare States there are only a few clear signs of europeanisation. The most likely process of europeanisation in the Scandinavian welfare regimes is the growth of private supply of social insurance relative to the public sector.