1 A NEW WELFARE ARCHITECTURE FOR EUROPE? Report submitted to the Belgian Presidency of the European Union (Final version, September 2001) by Gosta Esping-Andersen, Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, and John Myles 1 1 Sebastian Sarasa and Koen Vleminckx have provided statistical analyses from the LIS and ECHP data, respectively. We also wish to thank Joakim Palme, Niels Ploug and Jon Kvist for providing valuable background information. We are especially grateful to Anthony Atkinson, Rob de Boer, Jonathan Bradshaw, Maurizio Ferrera, Kaj Frick, Paolo Garonna, Eric Marlier, John Morley, Michelle Pritchard, Emanuel Reynaud, Fritz Scharpf, Frank Vandenbroucke, and Tom Van Puyenbroeck for their extraordinarily generous comments.