Abstract
The political need to develop the social dimension of European integration reappears at regular intervals, every fifteen years or so. Each time, a few successes have been achieved, but without ever really managing to rebalance the social and economic dimensions (which have historically been at the heart of the European project). Today, the dual transitions of climate change and digital technology are opening up new opportunities to revisit social aspects and the dominant economic model. Our reflections will focus on the climate issue, and the possibility of the emergence of a new socio-ecological paradigm involving new dialogues between often compartmentalized academic communities: notably between specialists in labor law and environmental law, between experts in social protection and climate change... This is both a renewal of the research agenda and, at the same time, cross-fertilization of ideas between actors in tension over the (democratic) conditions for change. From this renewed agenda and these cross-reflections may emerge the determinants of the new socio-ecological paradigm, in a context of growing uncertainty about the capacity of the current economic and social model to cope with these transitions.
