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This is a new overview of Romania's relationship with the European Union since the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in 1989, and recent accession to EU membership. It presents the reader with a clear sense of the debate, with full coverage of all the key issues involved.
This book is the first in-depth study of Greek government and features extensive interviews and interviews with former prime ministers of Greece.
This rare focus on the politics of contemporary Greece explores in particular the country’s processes of public policy-making. It is more than thirty years since the restoration of democracy in Greece and in this period the country has undergone a number of major changes. Domestic political tensions have arisen from the pressures of ‘Europeanization’ as a consequence of Greece’s membership in the European Union. EU membership has helped define a ‘modernization’ project, latterly associated with Premier Costas Simitis, which clashes with traditional practices and paradigms. In addition, other challenges have arisen: of a multi-ethnic society, of the loss of faith in old ideologies...
How successful was the EU's Lisbon Strategy? This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Strategy and reflects on its key developments during its 10-year cycle. The volume contains both theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the leading scholars of EU studies across the social sciences.
This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.
The Fool is the story of Danny, a young lawyer from Sydney, Australia, who cannot find meaning in his life or work anymore. His wife has left him, and everything seems to be going wrong. He is having nightmares and spends most of his nights sleepless. In the middle of chaos, Danny has a recurrent dream about a homeless man, that wakes him up terrified in the night. The doctors want to put him on medication. His wife and friends agree on that. But Danny decides to disregard the doctors advice and go look for his homeless uncle in New York. To do that, he has to leave his job and talk to his friends, wife, and family about his crazy plans. Everyone thinks Danny is making up stories in his mind...
This volume is the authoritative Handbook guide to the development of Greek politics, economy, and society from the period of the fall of the Colonels' Regime (1974) to the present day, including the causes and consequences of the crisis in Greece and the aftermath of the crisis, in comparative and historical perspective.
The book sheds new light on the history of the Eurozone crisis and provides crucial lessons for the way forward.
From 2009 to 2015, the euro area of the European Union (EU) experienced an existential socio-economic crisis. To secure its institutional integrity, the EU designed several new institutions to support member states in need but also to facilitate socio-economic adjustments. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) lies at the centre of this strategy: it provides financial assistance to member states in severe crisis on an intergovernmental basis while demanding compliance with adjustment programs from program countries. Based on a comparative political economic analysis, Remaking European Political Economies shows that the EU’s financial assistance programs focused strongly on reforms that le...
This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union. It explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It contains over 1,000 clear and succinct definitions, spelling out acronyms and abbreviations, arranged alphabetically and fully cross-referenced. Among the 1,000 entries you can find explanations and back-ground details on: accession negotiations atmospheric pollution Central European Free Trade Area common agricultural policy company law statute competition policy the euro Governance White Paper human rights MERCATOR Middle East OLAF - European Anti-Fraud Office refugee policy Schengen Agreement Treaty of Nice US-EC Declaration.