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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Overcoming the crisis in the Economic and Monetary Union

2016, 2016 (39), No. 1

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse

0000-0002-7270-8900

Warsaw University

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Europeistyki, Zakład polityk Unii Europejskiej

Uniwersytet Warszawski; Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych; Instytut Europeistyki

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.1.16.2

Publication date

26.06.2016

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

The purpose of the article is to assess the extent to which it has been possible to overcome the crisis situation in the economic and political/systemic dimension in Europe. The events of the crisis in the Eurozone mobilised the national and European elites to respond above all with respect to the economic situation. But in part, the changes concerned also the political dimension or precipitated consequences of a systemic character (related to the mechanisms of European integration). Some ideas were only discussed and did not gain practical implementation due to differing opinions and interests among the leading political actors, above all the EU member states. As a result, the crisis was overcome to a partial or incomplete extent both in the economic and political respect.

Keywords:

Eurozone crisis,asymmetric confederation,political segmentation

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