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Europeans, whether they realize it or not, have passed only the first few bends in the road of a years-long journey to overhaul their key economic and political institutions. This redesign will be more profound than the one experienced by Communist member states after the breakup of the Soviet Union; that one was a tumultuous [...]
Blogosphere There has been another round of discussion about the European blogosphere and how it compares with the US scene as well as national blogospheres in different European countries. The debate was kicked-off by Ronny Patz at the new EUROPP@LSE Blog and was picked up by Bruegel’s new blog and Kantoos Economics. The reasons cited for [...]
There is no shortage of talk nowadays about Europe’s deficits and the need to correct them. Critics point to governments’ gaping budget deficits. They cite the southern European countries’ chronic external deficits. They highlight the eurozone’s institutional deficits – a single currency and a central bank but none of the other elements of a well-functioning [...]
The roots of current controversy around the current Euro crisis can be traced to the 1992 Maastricht negotiations that led to the common currency’s creation. Kevin Featherstone argues that the rejection of neo-Keynesian ideas was fundamental then, and finds echoes today in policy attitudes that make a return to growth even more unlikely. ‘The past is another [...]
As part of ECFR’s ‘Reinvention of Europe’ project, we are running a series of responses from leading thinkers and academics to Mark Leonard’s recent paper,‘Four scenarios for the reinvention of Europe’. The paper outlined four possible routes towards solving Europe’s current crisis, and argued that Europe’s main challenge was to solve the acute euro crisis without exacerbating [...]
It is not easy to detect where the euro debate stands after coming back from a holiday in India. In fact the euro crisis was hardly mentioned in the The Hindu, one of the most important Indian newspapers. However, I think there is a tangible game change happening this year. Still, we are faced with many [...]
As part of ECFR’s ‘Reinvention of Europe’ project, we are running a series of responses from leading thinkers and academics to Mark Leonard’s recent paper,‘Four scenarios for the reinvention of Europe’. The paper outlined four possible routes towards solving Europe’s current crisis, and argued that Europe’s main challenge was to solve the acute euro crisis without exacerbating [...]
And again, historians, sociologists, cultural studies academics and political scientists betray their academic duty. Earlier, they shied away from the problems of immigration, integration and Islam en masse. They turned traitor to their expert knowledge of human society by failing to signal the shadow sides of multicultural integration in a loud and timely manner. They [...]
The sustainability question needs to be answered. In this phase of economic development, its impacts on a number of domains need to be considered. Environmental problems, both in the form of global warming and also economic and social issues, are the primary concern. The political implications are also crucial. Both domains have specific and common [...]
A series of developments over the last few weeks have set in motion a downward spiral for the eurozone. Unless officials – especially German officials – act fast, the verdict of financial markets is bound to be ruthless. First, the eurozone has failed to turn the tide. Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, was right [...]
In an op-ed published recently in the Financial Times, Jean-Claude Piris, the former chief lawyer for the EU Council of Ministers, warned that the present institutional set-up of the EU is “no longer tenable” and called for a two-speed Europe. Coming as it did from a former top-ranking EU official, from one of its founding member states [...]
The economic crisis has meant harsh austerity in a number of EU states. But even those that retain relatively sound macroeconomic fundamentals have engaged in belt-tightening wary of market reactions and rising spreads. The political economy of the EU is displaying worrying signs of decay, as Europe’s socio-economic model is undermined through strategies of fiscal [...]
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