Confronting crisis and precariousness in the European Union / Stefan Schmalz, Brandon Sommer and Antonio Loffredo -- Precariousness in the Eurozone : causes, effects and developments / Klaus Dörre -- The competitive architecture of european integration : European labour division, locational...

History -- West european economic integration since 1950 (Nicholas Crafts) -- The history of European Economic and Monetary Union (Harold James) -- History of economic thought and policy-making at the European Commission (Ivo Maes) -- The single market and the euro -- The economics of the single...

On the basis of a brief reconstruction of the causes and impacts of the euro crisis, this paper explores, counterfactually and hypothetically, whether the new euro regime, insisting on fiscal austerity and supply-side reforms, could have prevented the rise of the crisis or is able to deal with...