creditworthiness and European integration -- Still the 'old' Europe? historical legacies and long-term political challenges -- The … Achilles heel of post-war European integration : endogenous preference formation and the boundaries of creditor-state power …

The paper adresses the need for more flexibility in the integration process of the European Union after its recent …, financial constraints, societal preferences, and political interests, European integration based on the uniformity principle is … hardly feasible. In order to avoid a rank growth of integration and yet to strengthen the momentum of flexibility, so …