SOCIAL-POLICY AND EUROPEAN UNION

What social policy developments may be reasonably expected from the Eu ropean Union? Three possible positions on this question are developed: a market liberal view; a progressive liberal view; and an institution alist view. None of these positions is obviously the correct one, and in each case a mixture of pragmatic and principled criticisms can be d eveloped. However, it is argued that the progressive liberal position strikes an ethically acceptable balance of competing considerations.