1st Edition

The Effects of the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis Differentiated Integration between the Centre and the New Peripheries of the EU

Edited By Christian Schweiger, Jose Magone Copyright 2015
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The book analyses the emerging centre-periphery divisions within the European Union which result from the unprecedented conditions created by the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. The multiple layers of policy coordination which emerged in response to the crisis have initiated a process by which the EU is increasingly divided in terms of the level... Read more

1. Differentiated Integration and Cleavage in the EU under Crisis Conditions

Christian Schweiger and José M. Magone

2. Framing the Crisis, Defining the Problems: Decoding the Euro Area Crisis

Brigid Laffan

3. Boundaries of Welfare between the EU and Member States during the ‘Great Recession’

Caroline De La Porte and Philippe Pochet

4. The EU-25 Fiscal Compact: Differentiated Spillover Effects under Crisis Conditions

Christian Schweiger

5. Why has the German Job Market done astonishingly well despite the 2008-2009 ‘Great Recession’? New Economic Miracle, Institutional Transformation or Beggar-thy-Neighbour Policies?

Lothar Funk

6. The Limits of Transnational Solidarity and the Eurozone Crisis in Germany, Ireland and Slovakia

Stefan Auer

7. From Grexit to Grecovery: The Paradox of the Troika’s Engagement with Greece

Anna Visvizi

8. Portugal is not Greece: Policy Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Consequences for the Portuguese Political Economy

José M. Magone

9. The Tale of two Peripheries in a divided Europe

Bela Galgoczi

10. Poland under economic Crisis Conditions

Maciej Duszczyk

11. Hungary and the Eurozone – the need for a more systematic Approach

Oliver Kovács

Biography

Christian Schweiger is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK. His main research interests are the political economy of the EU, national varieties of economic and social development in the member states and transatlantic relations.

José M. Magone is Professor of Regional and Global Governance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany. He has published widely on European politics, particularly on Southern Europe and European integration.