This study attempts to assess the extent to which the financial crisis has damaged citizens' trust in public institutions, especially the confidence that European citizens invest in the European institutions. The results of major public opinion surveys show a severe decrease in citizens' trust...

Prologue : The perils of sleepwalking -- Contextualizing debt : history, morality, and the triple structural dimension -- The nature of sovereign creditworthiness : hierarchy, sovereignty, and responsibility -- Moralizing credit : bad debt, good debt, and the troubled conscience -- pt. I. Debt...

This assessment was created in the context of the seminar ‘Ideas, Ideologies and Identities in Europe'. Therefore the essay seeks to answer if there are any European people, what does it mean to be European and can be the European identity be created? In order to answer those questions the...

Der Autor war u.a. Chefvolkswirt der Deutsche Bank-Gruppe. Europa ist "integrationsmüde und zerfallsgefährdet" bemerkt er im Vorwort. Diesem Urteil stellt er seine Begeisterung und Argumente für ein auch die Weltgemeinschaft attraktives Europa entgegen. Er beschreibt die einzelnen Aspekte der...