The first European state to develop a social welfare system was

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Germany

The welfare state is European in origin because its birth is commonly dated to late 19th century Germany. Around 1850, most industrializing capitalist countries already had some version of a modern poor law and had started to introduce labour protection measures (Polanyi [1944] 1957).

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The first European state to develop a social welfare system was Germany.