...Barry Eichengreen The euro crisis may have been an inevitable result of the ideologically driven arguments for adopting the common currency—or of incompatible national economic philosophies. The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe , by Joseph E. Stiglitz . W.W...

... Alexis Tsipras Yanis Varoufakis Panos Kammenos Independent Greeks euro European Commission International Monetary Fund Angela Merkel Vladimir Putin George Papandreou 108 To the Brink and Back in Greece MANOS MATSAGANIS [O]rdinary Greeks intuitively understood better than many...

... , by Kathleen R. McNamara Oxford University Press , 2015 © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Gerard Delanty European Union Commission book review Politics Everyday Europe Kathleen McNamara national identity euro banal...

... Jones political economy policy making maker consensus EU bailout crisis crises euro eurocrisis Eurozone quantitative easing central bank ECB QE solidarity assets liquidity governing cuncile bundesbank draghi merkel angela debt weidmann budgeting austerity redistribution...

...Matthias Matthijs Through a renegotiation of its own fundamental membership terms, Britain wants to reform Europe from within—but by staying out of the euro it refuses to be at the core of European policy making. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University...

.... All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Manos Matsaganis Greece catastrophe Europe euro union European parliament presidency populism fascism fascist golden dawn neo Clean Hands Panhellenic socialist movement Papandreau embezzlement coast...

... of California Karen Smith Joseph Nye European Europe union soft power economic military diplomatic instruments outcomes Interstate hard command EU normative ICC international criminal court Lisbon treaty Greece accession euro influence austerity 104 The EU is a powerful...

...Barry Eichengreen It almost seems as if the European economic model is continuously experiencing an existential crisis. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Barry Eichengreen capitalism European Union euro debt crisis...

...Daniela Schwarzer A major challenge for policy makers lies in the fact that they may have to move forward with a deepening of integration at a time when the EU and the euro area confront a growing crisis of acceptability. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents...

... Calleo Germany European Union federalism reunification Angela Merkel France debt crisis euro zone 114 PERSPECTIVE The European Union is often depicted as a bicycle a contraption that either advances or falls down. The pressure to advance is driven by a federalizing spillover effect...

... crisis euro zone banking system Germany France Greece financial regulation budget deficits 83 To understand why the euro crisis has gone from bad to worse, one needs to under-stand the inconsistencies in the setup of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) that caused the problem in the first...

...Franklin L. Hess The EU ought to…take a more pragmatic approach toward both the country's finances and the euro zone's economic future. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Franklin Hess Greece austerity debt crisis Constantine...

...Barry Eichengreen The fact that resolving the crisis will be costly has one silver lining. It concentrates attention on the need to reform the institutions of the euro area to prevent equally costly crises from occurring again. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents...

...Barry Eichengreen Adopting the euro will have costs for the so-called accession economies, but so would shunning the euro. In fact, there are compelling reasons to think that adopting the euro will be less costly than the other monetary options available to the countries of ‘new’ Europe. © 2001...