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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790933403321

Titolo

Europe's crisis, Europe's future / / Kemal Dervis and Jacques Mistral, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2555-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

330.94

Soggetti

Monetary policy - European Union countries - 21st century

Debts, Public - European Union countries

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

European Union countries Economic conditions 21st century

European Union countries Economic policy 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Javier Solana -- Acknowledgments -- Europe's crisis, Europe's future : an overview / Kemal Dervis and Jacques Mistral -- Greece : tax anything that moves! / Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos -- Spain : a new quest for growth / Angel Pascual-Ramsay -- Italy : strategies for moving from crisis to growth / Domenico Lombardi and Luigi Paganetto -- France : part of the solution or part of the problem? / Jacques Mistral -- Germany : constraints in the crisis / Friedrich Heinemann -- Cross-cutting issues -- The financial sector : key issues with the European banking union / Douglas J. Elliott -- Building a stronger union : social policies in Europe and the management of the debt crisis / Jacques Mistral -- Visions for Europe : democratic legitimacy and EU institutions / Kemal Dervis -- Appendix. Economic data for selected european economies, 2000-14 -- Index -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

The eurozone crisis started in Greece in 2009-10, spread into Ireland and Portugal, and, from there, quickly spread to the larger economies of Spain and Italy. By the autumn of 2011, it threatened the entire



global financial system. In  Europe's Crisis, Europe's Future, an international group of economic analysts provides an insightful view of the crisis.How did mismanagement of a crisis in a marginal economy spark such a wildfire? After all, Greece is responsible for only 2% of the eurozone's total GDP, yet the crisis in Athens threatened to grow into a worldwide contagion.Individual chapters