Benedikter, Roland και Kaelin, Lukas, (2013), “Ελβετικό θαύμα; Πέρα από την σοκολάτα, το τυρί και τις τράπεζες” , Foreign Affairs – The Hellenic Edition, 11 Απριλίου. Ολόκληρη η Ευρώπη φαίνεται να είναι σε οικονομική και πολιτική κρίση. Αλλά υπάρχει μια μικρή περιοχή ηρεμίας στον πυρήνα της ηπείρου: η Ελβετία. Παρά το γεγονός ότι πολλά από αυτά που κάνουν την χώρα επιτυχημένη δεν θα υιοθετούνταν από την υπόλοιπη Ευρώπη, τα τμήματα …Read More
Kirkegaard, Jacob, (2013), “Remain Calm: Europe Is Still on Track” , The Peterson Institute for International Economics, 17 Απριλίου. European short-term economic growth prospects remain weak because of rampant fiscal consolidation, private sector deleveraging, and the temporary unsettling effects of structural reforms. But European leaders continue to take important and constructive decisions on bailouts and the banking union, suggesting that recovery will eventually get on track. At least three such …Read More
De Grauwe, Paul , Ji, Yuemei, “Are Germans really poorer than Spaniards, Italians and Greeks?”, www.voxeu.org, 16 Απριλίου. A recent ECB household-wealth survey was interpreted by the media as evidence that poor Germans shouldn’t have to pay for southern Europe. This column takes a look at the numbers. Whilst it’s true that median German households are poor compared to their southern European counterparts, Germany itself is wealthy. Importantly, this wealth …Read More
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
Darvas, Zsolt, Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Wolff, Guntram, (2013), “Europe’s growth problem (and what to do about it)”, Bruegel – The Brussels-based think tank, 12 Απριλίου. The issue: The European Union’s pre-crisis growth performance was disappointing enough, but the performance has been even more dismal since the onset of the crisis. Weak growth is undermining private and public deleveraging,and is fuelling continued banking fragility. Persistently high unemployment is eroding skills, discouraging …Read More
Open Europe Team, (2013), “Who’s next in line in the eurozone crisis? Portugal and Slovenia are the prime candidates”, Open Europe, 11 Απριλίου. The troubles in Cyprus have set off a new examination of the health of the eurozone, with a particular focus on which country might be next in line for a bailout and the extent to which shareholders and depositors will take losses when banks fail (bail-ins). Much …Read More
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.
Gocaj, Ledina, Meunier, Sophie, (2013), “Time Will Tell: The EFSF, the ESM and the Euro Crisis”, Journal of European Integration, Vol.35, Issue 3, p.p. 239-253 The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), a slim and temporary bailout fund created by the European Union in May 2010 to quell a growing sovereign debt crisis in Europe, became the foundation for a permanent, more powerful institution, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), adopted in …Read More
Yiangou, Jonathan, O’keeffe, Micheal, Glockler Gabriel, (2013), “Tough Love: How the ECB’s Monetary Financing Prohibition Pusher Deeper Euro Area Integration”, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 35, Issue 3, p.p. 223-237 This paper analyses the underlying dynamics of institutional change in economic governance in EMU. We show that the crisis revealed significant gaps between the intentions of the designers of EMU and the observed outcome. Building on the path dependence literature …Read More
Mezn, George, Smith, Mitchell P., (2013), “Kichking the Can Down the Road to More Europe? Salvaging the Euro and the Future of European Economic Governance”, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 35, Issue 3, p.p. 195-206 Recent assessments of the nature of the eurozone’s problems, their origins, and a policy choices and likely outcomes inform our understanding of the crisis and explain its persistence. These accounts detail weaknesses in design of …Read More
