ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

The EU is pursuing a highly competitive social market economy as the common economic order to further develop the European single market and balance the free market and social protection at the EU level. The intervention of the social sphere was mostly the result of political compromise, but at the same time, given that one of the originally proposed goals, free and undistorted competition, was excluded from the goal of integration, the realization of a highly competitive social market economy can be recognized as the reinforcement of the social aspect. If so, is a highly competitive social market economy a meaningful goal, and does the current European Union have the capacity to achieve that goal? In order to answer this question, this paper examines how the concept of social market economy developed through the historical and theoretical background of the EU social market economy, and analyzes the level and degree of convergence of the modernized social market economy at the European level. Furthermore, this paper intends to examine whether the EU has the authority and ability to realize social and economic progress through a social market economy as an economic order, and through this, the present meaning and practical tasks of the social market economy are derived.

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