Brussels, 20/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Today, few member states would be able to deny that their social model and the functioning of their welfare state need to be reformed. This revision is necessary, as it comes not only in the framework of national budgetary cleansing plans, which are more or less inevitable, but also because the EU has laid down common objectives to be achieved by 2020, which it no longer seems to be in a position to achieve. It was against this backdrop that the...