La vulnerabilidad del Estado del Bienestar Español en el contexto internacional

Abstract

Spain has had to overcome many difficulties to reach similar levels of progress to its community partners, in fact at certain moments the road has been made without a travel partner due to international isolation as a consequence of a political regime without democratic guarantees for decades. We will have to wait until the Constitution of 1978 and the incorporation into the European Economic Community in 1986 for the welfare state to materialize. Growth will continue until 2007 with more than 20 million active workers, with unemployment falling to 8.26%, at which time progress levels will be reached very similar to those of its neighbors in the European Union. But, this pattern has been reversed, the Spanish economy has been immersed in recent years in a recessive cycle as a result of a global crisis, lacking the necessary mechanisms to face this period of instability, increasing alarmingly the people in risk of poverty and social exclusion.