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Η έλευση του ιππικού και το φίδι του σωβινισμού

Παγουλάτος, Γιώργος (2013), “Η έλευση του ιππικού και το φίδι του σωβινισμού”, Η Καθημερινή, 30 Μαΐου. Πριν από μερικές μέρες, η καγκελάριος Μέρκελ ρωτήθηκε για την κατάσταση στην Ουγγαρία, όπου η κυβέρνηση του πρωθυπουργού Ορμπάν έχει αποδοκιμαστεί ευρύτατα από πλειάδα Ευρωπαίων ηγετών για αντιδημοκρατικές πρακτικές φίμωσης του Τύπου, περιορισμού ατομικών ελευθεριών και επιθετικού εθνικισμού και αντισημιτισμού. «Θα κάνουμε ό,τι μπορούμε για να βάλουμε την Ουγγαρία στον σωστό δρόμο, αλλά δεν θα …Read More

Propping up teetering Europe necessary for China’s own interests

Tzogopoulos, George (2013), “Propping up teetering Europe necessary for China’s own interests”, Global Times, 16 Μαΐου. The European debt crisis is a significant challenge for China. There’s the risk for Beijing’s export-dependent economy and the threat to China’s attempt to achieve a successful diversification of its currency reserves. But perhaps the most important problem is that a potential disintegration of the European common currency area might have dramatic consequences on …Read More

The continent-wide rise of Euroscepticism

Torreblanca, Jose Ignacio and Leonard, Mark, (2013), “The continent-wide rise of Euroscepticism”, European Council on Foreign Relations, 16 Μαΐου. Euroscepticism has spread across the continent like a virus. It is striking that everyone in the EU has been losing faith in the European project: both creditors and debtors, eurozone countries, would- be members and “opt-outs”. So what is going on? In ECFR’s new policy memo – The continent – wide …Read More

Democracy, Solidarity And The European Crisis

Habermas, Jürgen, (2013), “Democracy, Solidarity And The European Crisis”, Social Europe Journal, 7 Μαΐου. The European Union owes its existence to the efforts of political elites who could count on the passive consent of their more or less indifferent populations as long as the peoples could regard the Union as also being in their economic interests, all things considered. The Union has legitimized itself in the eyes of the citizens …Read More

Did the euro kill governance in the periphery

Villaverde, Jesus Fernandez, Garikano, Luis, Santos, Tano, (2013), “Did the euro kill governance in the periphery” , www.voxeu.org, 30 Απριλίου. By the end of the 1990s, under the incentive of Eurozone entry, most peripheral European countries were busy undertaking structural reforms and putting their fiscal houses in order. This column argues that the arrival of the euro, and the subsequent interest-rate convergence, loosened a tide of cheap money that reversed …Read More

Is the euro crisis responsible for populism?

Barysch, Katinka, (2013), “Is the euro crisis responsible for populism?” , Centre for European Reform, 19 Απριλίου. Populists and extremists are on the rise across Europe. Even Germany is now seeing the rise of a eurosceptic party. The euro crisis is the reason for growing political risk in the eurozone. Or is it? True, populist parties are more important in several euro countries. But the reasons for this are manifold …Read More

Οι επιπτώσεις την οικονομικής κρίσης στον αμυντικό σχεδιασμό – Η «Έξυπνη Άμυνα» ως αντίδοτο στην στενότητα των πόρων”

Κωσταράκος, Μιχαήλ, (2013), “Οι επιπτώσεις την οικονομικής κρίσης στον αμυντικό σχεδιασμό – Η «Έξυπνη Άμυνα» ως αντίδοτο στην στενότητα των πόρων”, Foreign Affairs – The Hellenic Edition, 14 Απριλίου. Οι επιπτώσεις της οικονομικής κρίσης σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο έχουν δυσμενή αντίκτυπο σε όλο το φάσμα λειτουργίας των ενόπλων δυνάμεων των συμμαχικών χωρών. Ο αμυντικός προϋπολογισμός είναι ένα από τα κύρια συστατικά του κρατικού προϋπολογισμού και επομένως οι κυβερνήσεις είναι βέβαιο ότι …Read More

Europe poised between union and hegemony

Carras, Costas, (2013), “Europe poised between union and hegemony”, Open Democracy – Free Thinking for the World. French and German overriding of the European Commission over the Stability Pact can be seen, ten years later, to have been disastrous. A vision more powerful, more engaging, more profound than “common interest” is now required if Europe is to survive, and divided Cyprus is a test case.

How the EZ crisis is permanently changing EU institutions

Micossi, Stefano, (2013), “How the EZ crisis is permanently changing EU institutions”, The Centre for Economic Policy Research, Policy Insight, N. 65. The Eurozone crisis has elicited oceans of comment and analysis related to crisis management. Much less noticed is the crisis’ deep impact on EU institutions. A series of decisions taken at crisis summits massively centralised EU executive power over national economic policymaking. These decisions also shifted the institutional …Read More

Europe’s Political Stress Tests

Mueller , Jan-Werner, (2013),  “Europe’s Political Stress Tests” , www.project-syndicate.org, 4 Απριλίου. In recent years, the European Union – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political “stress tests” in the name of fiscal rectitude. As a result, southern Europe and parts of Eastern Europe have become a kind of political laboratory, with experiments producing strikingly varied – …Read More