European Union Post Crisis Challenges and Prospects for Growth
This book discusses the unprecedented impact of the financial and economic crisis on government finances and economic performance across Europe, which has raised skepticism on the ability of the current course of integration to promote prosperity. Corresp
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European Union
Post Crisis Challenges and Prospects for Growth
European Union
Vasileios Vlachos · Aristidis Bitzenis Editors
European Union Post Crisis Challenges and Prospects for Growth
Editors Vasileios Vlachos Department of International and European Studies University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece
Aristidis Bitzenis Department of International and European Studies University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece
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To my wife for the years that she took care 24/7 our son who passed away —Aristidis Bitzenis To Anastasis, getting a glimpse of the past may bring hope to the future —Vasileios Vlachos
Preface
A discussion about the economic aspects of the ongoing challenges that the European integration project currently faces led to the development of this book. A fitting prologue to these challenges would be to consider the benefits of European integration from a historical perspective (throughout its evolution). A great distance has been covered from the development of the European Communities as mean to secure long-term peace and stability in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War and to create a favorable environment for economic growth and recovery, to the establishment of the European Union (EU) as a mean for European stability and prosperity. These benefits are secured through several binding treaties that give the EU the features of both a supranational entity, where the sovere
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