Том 2 - Тенденции и предизвикателства в развитието на ...

countries during the current economic slowdown and fiscal austerity.One of the reasons for their relative success is not only the sustainabilityof their welfare systems, but the contribution of the specific businesssystem of this model. In the countries with a social market economy wecan witness a much greater mobility of labor and capital and a decisiverole of the medium size firms in the economy. Further, these countrieshave registered best success in promoting entrepreneurship as one of themain issues for the realization of the Lisbon agenda and Europe 2020.In conclusion, the European social model has not gone, becausethere has never been such a model. The model of the social market economyhowever has a social welfare system as an asset, rather than a liability.102