Whatever It Takes : The Battle for Post-Crisis Europe.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Part I Forged in crisis -- 1 How we got here -- The early years: first steps for peace and prosperity -- More members, some turbulence -- From "eurosclerosis" to the revenge of geopolitics -- A common market - and a common currency on the horizon -- 2 It seemed like a good idea at the time -- The optimal currency area that wasn't -- The Delors Report blueprint -- Carpe diem -- A successful convergence process -- Birth of a currency -- The years of innocence -- 3 Caught in the headlights -- Bailing out European banks -- The weakest link in the chain: Greece -- Bailing out Greece -- 4 The firefighters -- A bigger bazooka -- The Deauville moment -- Debt relief on the table -- Another Greek bailout - plus PSI -- 5 Fixing the bicycle while riding it -- "Whatever it takes" -- Two different episodes -- From fire-fighting to rebuilding -- Fiscal comes first … -- But macroeconomic imbalances matter as well … -- … as does governance -- 6 A dysfunctional family -- The new divide: creditors versus lenders -- The impact on EU institutions -- Part II Post-crisis -- 7 We are not in Kansas anymore -- Dealing with technology-based globalization -- From the Lisbon strategy … -- … to Europe 2020 -- The universal right to be heard -- 8 And then there were … -- "Fortress Europe" -- Taking back control -- Unexpected consequences -- 9 Safeguarding the currency -- The euro as a bumblebee -- Five presidents -- From Mars and from Venus -- New tools for a fiscal union -- A European Safe Asset -- A mechanism for debt restructuring -- Simplifying fiscal rules -- Completing the banking union -- 10 Squaring the institutional circle -- Beyond the new inter-governmentalism -- The evolution of the ESM.

The Eurogroup in the line of fire -- A new mandate for the ECB? -- Lies, damned lies and statistics -- 11 The new geopolitics -- The US as a disruptor -- The international role of the euro -- China ascending -- Difficult neighbours -- We need an army -- 12 Twenty-first-century democracy -- Resolving a trilemma -- Communication and disinformation -- Giving voice to the people -- Allocating EU jobs -- Representation and voting -- Epilogue: the way ahead -- Bibliography -- Index.

The solidarity of Europe, the driving force behind social and economic integration, has given way to suspicion and nationalism. If Europe, as a common project, is to continue a restructuring is required, if not a new settlement of power within the Union. This book explores what a "post-crisis Europe" might look like.

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