Seminar on Socio-Fiscal Welfare
Situated outside the traditional boundaries of social security the role of socio-fiscal welfare in providing income support is often overlooked. At the same time, EU Member States are increasingly relying on these policies to address new social challenges, such as climate change and the changing world of work. During this seminar, Marthe Delodder, Eleni De Becker and Lucie Lamarche will discuss the topic of socio-fiscal welfare, by shedding light and providing interesting insights on this hidden part of the welfare state.
This seminar will take place online on 12 June 2024 from 14:00 to 16:00 (Brussels time). Please send an email to Marthe.Nicole.P.Delodder@vub.be before 10 June 2024 if you wish to participate.
Program
- Dra. Marthe Delodder - Introduction
- Prof.dr. Eleni De Becker - Socio-Fiscal Welfare: Towards a typology?
- Prof.dr. Lucie Lamarche - The Extensive Usage of "Social" Tax Expenditures in Canada: What's in a Name and What's Wrong with the Other Name
- Questions & Answers
- Concluding remarks by Prof.dr. Paul Schoukens
Contributors
Marthe Delodder is a PhD student at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), attached to the Public Law Department, Social Law Section. Her research focuses on the development of the typology of socio-fiscal measures within the European Union, and examines the relationship of such measures with the right to free movement at EU level.
Eleni De Becker is professor at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), and substitute professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium) in social security law. Her research focuses on fundamental social rights from a comparative, international and European perspective, as well as social security protection for atypical workers and the role of the EU. As a postdoc, Eleni worked on the EU Horizon project 'Working Yet Poor', in which she studied working in poverty and its impact on social security law. Within her research on the welfare state, she has highlighted, among other things, the role of additional income support for vulnerable groups and its relationship with traditional social security schemes.
Lucie Lamarche is a professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Law at UQAM. She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1978 and is a director of the Ligue des droits et libertés du Québec. Lamarche is a Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute (1998); recipient of the Mérite Christine Tourigny (social justice) from the Quebec Bar (2002); recipient of the Prix Pierre Dansereau for a researcher's social commitment - Association canadienne française pour l'avancement des savoirs (ACFAS) (2016); and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2014). Since 2018, she has been a member of the Court Challenges Program of Canada's Expert Panel on Human Rights. From 2008 to 2013, she directed the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa, where she held the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights Law. Lamarche teaches social and labour law and international economic and social human rights law.
Paul Schoukens is Full Professor of Social Security Law at KU Leuven (Faculty of Law and Criminology). He is Academic Director of the Advanced Master of European Social Security and is responsible for student and staff mobility in the Faculty of Law and Criminology. As from March 2015, he holds the Instituut Gak Chair International and European Social Security Law at Tilburg University. In 2013, he became Secretary-General of European Union Law on the social protection of self-employed persons and specialised further in the domain of atypical work in social security.
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