Βulmer, S., (2014), “Germany and the Eurozone Crisis: Between Hegemony and Domestic Politics”, West European Politics, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1244-1263. This paper explores Germany’s centrality to the outcome of the eurozone crisis. It argues that the eurozone crisis has led Germany’s ordo-liberal principles to trump its other longstanding commitment – i.e. to European integration. These two principles are explored in order then to shed light on how they …Read More

Brazys, S. & Hardiman, N., (2015), “From ‘Tiger’ to ‘PIIGS’: Ireland and the use of heuristics in comparative political economy”, European Journal of Political Research, Vol.54, Issue 1, pp. 23-42. This article analyses the consequences of the narrative construction of the group of countries that has been grouped as ‘PIIGS’ (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) for their sovereign debt risk rating. Acronyms for groups of countries can provide a …Read More

Buti, M. & Turrini, A. (2015) “Three waves of convergence. Can Eurozone countries start growing together again?“, VoxEU Organisation, 17 April.   An oft expressed view is that the Eurozone is a straitjacket on periphery members and income convergence has slowed, halted or reversed.  This column argues that EZ convergence never stopped. What changed was the type of convergence. Today’s convergence is neither nominal nor real, it is structural.  Structural …Read More

Dorrucci, E., Ioannou, D., Mongelli, F. P. & Terzi, A. (2015) “Europe’s challenging economic integration: Insights from a new index“, VoxEU Organisation, 15 April.   Despite a significant progress over the past decades, European integration still needs improvement in some areas. This column presents a long-term narrative of European integration by using a recently published European index of regional institutional integration. The index maps developments in European integration from 1958 …Read More