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This paper examines the institutionalization process of the discourse on the social market economy in the European Parliament in order to understand how the social market economy became a core standard of the EU, recognized as a quasi-constitutional principle of the EU and on par with other priorities of the community. The European Parliament played a very important role in the process in which the social market economy based on German ordoliberalism was institutionalized as a routine discourse of the EU and introduced into the Lisbon Treaty. In addition, the EU’s social market economy, like the perspective of Europeanization, was firmly established as a specific way of understanding the EU economy, and institutionalization proceeded through a gradual convergence process. In this regard, this paper traces the institutionalization process of the discourse on the social market economy in the European Parliament from the early days of European integration to its inclusion in the 2007 Lisbon Treaty in order to understand more specifically what political mobilization and strategies brought about the change in which the social market economy was institutionalized as a set of discursive practices, reconstructed as a European identity, and stabilized in everyday life. Through this, it aims to find an answer to the question of whether the EU is social.

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