The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity of problems in the region, revealing the shortcomings of the EU s architecture. The European Union, perhaps for the first time in its history of more than seventy years, is being perceived as a threat to the financial and monetary stability of the world."

A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis" explores the connection between internal EU actions and institutions and the external factors that influence the ongoing response to the...

Migration in the Mediterranean region is a widely debated and much studied topic. This is due to the present refugee crisis, consequences of Arab revolutions, the proximity with emigration and transit countries, but also to the involvement of southern European countries and the mass arrival of migrants. The management of Border controls, migration, development, human trafficking, human rights and the clash or convergence of civilizations has generated a great deal of controversy and media attention.

Migration in the Mediterranean offers a unique multidisciplinary theoretical and...

The book provides a new framework for the analysis of the economic crisis that is shaking the countries participating in the European Monetary Union.

The analysis goes beyond the short-term, to study the medium and long-term relations between 'core' countries (in particular Germany) and Southern European 'peripheral' countries. The policy implications differ in many respects from the policies suggested by both mainstream and Keynesian approaches that have so far dominate the debates on the economic policy alternatives. The book focuses instead on how product-led competitiveness can...

The European Union widened and deepened integration when it introduced the Single Market and the common currency, increasing the number of member countries from 12 to 28. After a quarter of a century, the 2008 financial and economic crisis opened a new chapter in the history of European integration. Prosperity was replaced by economic crisis and then long stagnation, with ramifications far beyond the economic arena.

For the first time, after more than half a century, some countries were almost forced to step out of the Union. History s most frightening migration crisis...

In the wake of the Greek crisis, the future of the EU is the subject of a great deal of debate. This book critically evaluates the current new monetarist model of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, presenting an alternative post Keynesian (progressive) model, aimed at addressing the current problems of trade imbalance and asymmetric macroeconomic policy infrastructure that are augmenting tensions within the Eurozone.

The book's approach is based upon the development of a common, rather than a single currency approach, and utilises post Keynesian policy...

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been in almost permanent crisis mode. It is witnessing new dimensions of internal differentiation among its member states, and the migration crisis has shown that the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs), in particular, are slowly but certainly transforming themselves from predominantly passive policy-takers towards adopting a more active role in the process of shaping the EU's governance agenda.

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive and critical insight into how the CEEs position...