This book calls upon us to rethink and reboot the European Union. The authors dissect the EU’s many vulnerabilities … European identity. Given the sum total of these vulnerabilities, the book argues, the EU may not survive beyond 2025 in its … language. These solutions may reduce the number of EU countries, but would increase cohesion and overall survivability …

This book explores the political and economic issues currently challenging EU member states. It analyses and explains …. Chapters provide insight into both the underlying and more immediate economic and social challenges in the EU created by its … existential challenge to the EU project. Featuring interviews with high profile key players from inside and outside Europe the …

Redistributive Impacts of Migration after the EU's Eastern Enlargement -- Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare … -- Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany -- Ireland's Recession and the Immigrant … Adjustment Mechanism in the UK during the Great Recession -- Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged EU: The Spanish …

The Eastern Enlargement of the EU will not be complete until the new member states join the EMU. Economic and political … fundamental change in the economic and political architecture of the EU, adding to the strains already evident between core and …