What is more, it seems that the crisis requires from Member States to rethink their social policies and make a transition from ‘active welfare state’ into ‘activating welfare state’, that invests in people and gives citizens instruments and incentives rather than only responds to emerging damages caused by market failure.

6. Notes that the crisis requires a modernisation of the European Social Model, a rethinking of national social policies and a transition from welfare states, that mainly respond to damages caused by market failure, to ‘activating welfare states’, that invest in people and provide instruments and incentives with a view to create sustainable jobs and growth as well as prevent social distortions; notes that the crisis has further increased the need for investing in social entrepreneurship;

6. Notes that the crisis requires a modernisation of the European Social Model, a rethinking of national social policies and a transition from welfare states, that mainly respond to damages caused by market failure, to ‘activating welfare states’, that invest in people and provide instruments and incentives with a view to create sustainable jobs and growth as well as prevent social distortions; notes that the crisis has further increased the need for investing in social entrepreneurship;

9. Underlines that equal access to care is a pillar of a welfare state model based on solidarity and equality, and that the future of the EU's economies and our welfare states to a large extent will be dependent upon how increasing care needs will be organised; highlights that care work in our societies today is an important part of both the formal and informal economy; where the majority of workers are women, many times without proper working conditions and/or security; calls for the 2020 strategy to address the care economy with an aim to improve working conditions and reinforce public service care provision and equal access to care ...[+++] for all;

35. Believes that there is a need to develop beyond the concept of a 'welfare state', whereby the primary responsibility for welfare lies with the state, and more towards a 'welfare society' in which all stakeholders recognise that they too have responsibilities for looking after each other and that these responsibilities can be mutually reinforcing;

It is not an activism that creates a welfare state in terms of social programs and more equality for ordinary people. It is the kind of activism that creates a welfare state for the large multinational corporations and creates what might be called the corporate welfare bums of the world.