Pandemic and Social Crisis in EU Policies: From the “Green New Deal” (2019) to the “Porto Social Summit” (2021). The Open Challenge of the Social Taxonomy

The profound and complex changes generated by the pandemic crisis in the social conditions of people—in the way of working, living, thinking, the systems of relationships, the life expectancy and its prospects—require both new scientific cognitive approaches, and the definition of an integrated system of public policies and private actions aimed at organizing a new order based on social inclusion and effective human promotion; an operation made difficult by the fact that the structural crisis caused by the pandemic has created a general situation of uncertainty between the expectations of a return to the normal situation of the past and a widespread awareness that it will not be possible precisely due to the profound changes brought about by this crisis in our societies.