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Revisioning the "Fiscal EU": Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies

NUI Galway is one of eleven universities across six EU (Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Austria, Czech Republic) and three non-EU countries (Brazil, Canada, and Norway) forming this international, cross-disciplinary research consortium which will make recommendations on how fair and sustainable taxation and social policy reforms can increase the economic stability of EU member states. 

The project aims to produce recommendations on how fair and sustainable taxation and social policy reforms can increase the economic stability of EU member states, promoting economic equality and security, enhancing coordination and harmonization of tax, social inclusion, environmental, legitimacy, and compliance measures, support deepening of the European Monetary Union, and expanding the EU’s own resource revenue bases.

Dr. Emer Mulligan, through the Irish Centre for Social Gerentology within NUI Galway leads Work package 4 (WP4) of project FairTax, which is entitled ‘European Pension Policies and Intergenerational Fiscal Sustainability, Fairness, and Consolidation’.  WP4 will critically evaluate the implications of demographic ageing across the EU and in selected OECD countries, and the employment, social security, tax, and pensions policies introduced to address this phenomenon. A particular focus is on fiscal sustainability, equality, and consolidation across the EU. WP4 will address questions pertaining to intergenerational conflict, extended working life policies, the ‘social contract’, and cross-national consolidation of policy approaches to pension provision and extended working life in rapidly changing conditions.

The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 2014­2018, grant agreement No FairTax 649439.