• The reform of public pension systems in light of demographic trends and the ongoing transformation of capital markets and of the political economy limits tof the reforms;
• The causes of European unemployment, its social costs and the political feasibility of strategies aimed at liberalising EU labour markets;
• The co-ordination of social and immigration policies in the European Union as a precondition for effective labour mobility across EU countries;
• The dynamics of poverty and inequalities and the role played in this respect by the welfare systems. 
   

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