Abstract
In the past, universal access to essential public services served as an important mechanism for generating a good relationship between the market, social cohesion and democracy in many European countries. But, with the growing dominance of the mode of negative integration across the continent, citizens are being reconstituted as consumers and small shareholders. Meanwhile, privatisation of public services steamrolls the results of the decommodification of wage labour achieved in the short social democratic century.
Cuvinte cheie
public services
consumers
social cohesion
democracy
Istoric articol
Publicat
01.02.2026
Informații autori
Citare recomandată
Gheorghe Gabriel Sanda (2026). EU: The Transfer of Public Services into Private Hands. Journal of Economic Sciences, 1(1), 295–301. https://doi.org/10.65631/jes.1.2026.31
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