Looking for the ‘Social’ in the European Semester: The Ambiguous ‘Socialisation’ of EU Economic Governance in the European Parliament

The European Semester, the foundation of postcrisis economic governance in Union (EU), has become locus struggle between and social goals EU. persistent hierarchy subsuming policies to market-making logic have been at centre scholarly political discussions about Semester since its inception. This article examines how Parliament (EP), EU’s representative institution, engages with social/economic relationship within technocratic expert-led what ideological alternatives EP proposes. We ask where are key conflicts regarding dimension they affect policy outcomes. By discursively exploring reports on for 2014-19 term analysing groups committees, argues that takes an ambiguous contradictory position does not provide a real alternative status quo.