Griechenlands Zahlungsprobleme gefährden offensichtlich nicht die Stabilität der Eurozone, obwohl seine Schuldentragfähigkeit langfristig nicht gewährleistet ist. Dennoch wurde Griechenland eine Programmverlängerung um vier Monate zugestanden und auch über ein drittes Hilfsprogramm wird...

In the new member states of the EU which have not yet adopted the euro, previous adoption strategies have come under scrutiny. The spillovers and contagion from the global financial crisis revealed a new threat to the countries’ real convergence goal, namely considerable vulnerability to the...

The UK exit from the EU represents a qualitative change in the nature of EU membership. On the one hand, it conveyed the lesson that for the Union to be sustainable, membership needs to entail constant caretaking as far as individual members' contributions to the common good are concerned, with...