Harold James, (2017), “Europe’s Hard-Core Problem”, Project Syndicate, 1 November
With populism endemic in its periphery, the European Union is clearly in a period of deep uncertainty. If EU leaders are ever going to right the ship, they will need to identify the root cause of today’s instability, which is not so much about economics or immigration as it is about de facto Franco-German leadership.
Relevant Posts
- Dustmann, Christian, Eichengreen, Barry, Otten, Sebastian, Sapir, André, Tabellini, Guido, Zoega, Gylfi, (2017), «Populism and trust in national and European institutions», VoxEU, 22 August
- Gros, Daniel, (2017), «Can the EU survive in an age of populism?», CEPS, 9 January