EDITO – THE INDIVIDUAL: A THREAD IN THE FABRIC OF SOLIDARITY

The XXXVIIth Rencontre Ipse (IPSE Meeting) will be held on the 4th-5th of July. The topic of this event will be the recognition how the individual fits into new forms of solidarity.
Our social security systems and supplementary social protection schemes evolved concurrently with the emergence of solidarity among professionals that was sometimes local, and later in a more universal framework. Today, these historical schemes, that are qualified as either Bismarckian or Beveridgian, mix and interact with each other to varying degrees in the social protection plans of each member State…