EU coordination in Greece: "forced" Europeanization under the MoU? / Calliope Spanou -- EU coordination in Ireland … : centralization to master the crisis / Brigid Laffan -- EU coordination in Portugal : continuity and flexibility in a Troika Regime … / José M. Magone -- EU coordination in Cyprus : the limits of Europeanization in times of crisis / Adonis Pegasiou -- EU …

in selected countries of the euro area: Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. These peripheral euro zone countries come …

We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for … sustainability when debt gets "too high" relative to a threshold which is not necessarily fixed but varies with the level of debt … relative to its recent history and/or the occurrence of a financial crisis. However, the Greek and Italian debt …