NEW WELFARE REGIMES IN EASTERN EUROPE: THE CASES OF ROMANIA AND BULGARIA
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By: Ileana TACHE, Vlad DUMITRACHE
Keywords: Welfare regimes, social models, social protection, European economic integration, new EU entrants
The objective of this paper is to assess the stage of the new welfare regimes of
Bulgaria and Romania, two neighbour countries with similar tempo in the European
integration process. The paper analyzes first the influence of the European economic
integration on the Western and Eastern welfare states, revealing a self-contradictory aspect
of the process, that of being both beneficial and harmful for social protection systems. Then
the description of the present welfare regimes of Bulgaria and Romania and the discussion of
selected indicators are used for defining the social perspectives of the two analyzed
countries on the current economic background.
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