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The number of articles and books on new form(s) of governance in the EU is blossoming. The Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) has often been portrayed as one of the best example. This paper addresses three inter-related questions by presenting two different policy areas: the European Employment Strategy (EES), and poverty and social exclusion OMC (OMCincl). First, why have social topics (employment, pensions, poverty, health care) arrived at the EU level? Second, could we label the different versions of OMC as new forms of governance? And if so, is OMC a fertile ground for an informal form of governance? Our approach is to consider the EES and the OMC as classic bargaining processes with structural possibilities (the so-called openness) to develop a more deliberative dimension (which could increase the potential for informal exchanges). These two dimensions are not (necessarily) conflicting or exclusive but could be also complementary. Focusing on informal governance and the question of legitimacy, two processes will be analysed through a historical approach, which allows us to distinguish the big moment when the Member States will want to (re-)control the agenda and set the objectives from the intermediate period when all actors and institutions (re-)interpret the rules and try to modify/complement them. Adapted from the source document.

Industry platforms, particularly open-source based platforms are emerging as the tippingpoint of a new trend of interoganizational relationships among firms. They are characterizedby a large number of actors with different objectives that come and go. However in order toreap the benefits of network effects, reduce fragmentation and get access to a large pool ofresources, coordination dynamics within the different actors to create and innovate theplatform are needed. As opposed to traditional literature where a single firm leads the evolution of the platform,a more democratic approach based on the institutionalization of coordination, the implementationof coordination processes and mechanisms is proposed. A study in the form ofinterviews and interactive forums was carried in the Symbian Platform, specifically in theSymbian Foundation to identify the main coordination dynamics. The results showed that in the case of the Symbian Platform, firms´ first step towards coordinationwas to establish the formal structure of coordination, in this case the SymbianFoundation. Consequently the Symbian Foundation established the processes and coordinationmechanisms by which all of the actors participate and access to a pool of resources. Thestudy describes the evolution from democratic coordination to an increasing selfcoordinationpromoted by the Symbian Foundation within its members.

The Spanish Labour Law system has been profoundly changed along the last three decades. These transformations have intensely and extendedly affected this system's elements. The present article tries to offer a general perspective of those transformations, from a double point of view. First, and from the view of the Spanish Labour Law, the changes in the traditional model of regulation of the occupational relations are analyzed, paying special attention to the determinant factors of the folding of the governmental rules as well as the reorganization of the normative spaces of the law and the collective agreement. Second, and from the angle of the Social and Communitarian Law, the unstoppable and preoccupying advance of the soft law formulas and its effects on the project for social harmony are examined.

Contours of the European Union's social dimensions have been outlined within different national social contexts. The basics of Nordic, Anglo-Saxon, Mediterranean, Continental and Eastern European regimes have different presumptions, but objectives seem rather compatible. Poverty and social exclusion reduction is one of the social objectives of the European welfare states with a strong base on the Union level through the Social Open Method of Coordination (OMC). Assessments of the OMC impact over national social inclusion policies point to numerous improvements but also to short-ages that need to be overcome. ; Konture socijalne dimenzije Evropske unije iscrtavaju se unutar različitih nacionalnih socijalnih praksi. Nordijski, anglosaksonski, mediteranski, kontinentalni i istočnoevropski režimi koncipirani su na različitim pretpostavkama, ali njihovi ciljevi su u velikoj meri međusobno komplementarni. Borba protiv siromaštva i socijalne isključenosti predstavlja jedan od socijalnih ciljeva evropskih država blagostanja, koji ima važno uporište na komunitarnom nivou, posredstvom (socijalnog) Otvorenog metoda koordinacije. Procene uticaja OMK na nacionalne politike u ovoj oblasti ukazuju na brojna poboljšanja, ali i na nedostatke koje je potrebno prevazići.