a. List of Figures b. List of Tables c. List of Interviews

1. Introduction: beyond the social crisis of Europe?

2. Understanding crisis social politics and policymaking in the EU

3. Between social protection and polity maintenance: a political history of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund

4. The Youth Guarantee: the gradual institutionalisation of a residual EU social policy

5. A case of EU social policy failure: the European Framework Directive on Minimum Income

6. Social policy expansion in the field of intra-EU labour mobility: the revision of the Directive on the Posting of Workers

7. The European minimum wage directive: territorial dynamics and the gradual structuring of partisan conflicts in the EU polity

8. Compensating for the net-zero transition: the politics of establishing the Just Transition Fund and Social Climate Fund

10. Eroding or supporting national welfare states? European social governance after the introduction of the Recovery and Resilience Facility

11. Conclusions: comparative insights into the politics of the social crisis of Europe