https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:17:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/we-no-longer-love-you-but-we-dont-want-to-leave-you-the-eurozone-crisis-and-popular-euroscepticism-in-greece-2/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:40 +0000 http://arc.local/items/we-no-longer-love-you-but-we-dont-want-to-leave-you-the-eurozone-crisis-and-popular-euroscepticism-in-greece-2/ Continued]]> This article analyses whether and how public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in Greece has changed in the context of the current Eurozone crisis. It provides the first detailed treatment of how the crisis has affected citizens’ views in a traditionally pro-European member state. It examines whether public opinion has become more Eurosceptic and which societal groups have changed their views and in what direction. It uses data from Eurobarometer surveys conducted before and during the current crisis. Unsurprisingly, the findings show that negative sentiment towards the EU has increased across all social groups in recent years. However, we find a paradox of a decline in general support for the EU and an increase in support for the Euro. In a country seen as traditionally pro-European, Greek public opinion has fallen out of love with the EU, but it clearly does not want to leave the Eurozone or renounce membership altogether.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/greek-migration-policy-in-the-2010s-europeanization-tensions-at-a-time-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:30 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greek-migration-policy-in-the-2010s-europeanization-tensions-at-a-time-of-crisis/ Continued]]> During the past two years Greek migration policy has seen important developments concerning the legislative framework for irregular migration/asylum management and migrant integration. Given that several among these developments are related to the transposition of related EU directives, one obvious answer might be that of Europeanization: these developments had less to do with the Greek government’s plans about migration, rather they were the direct impact of Europeanization; Greece simply transposed relevant EU directives. I am arguing here for a more careful reading of the Europeanization effect which not only distinguishes the differential impact of Europeanization on policies and discourses, but also actually shows how Europeanization tendencies at different level can contrast one another. The findings of this paper contribute to a better understanding of Europeanization processes. They highlight that Europeanization involves also resistance to Europe especially at times of crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/we-no-longer-love-you-but-we-dont-want-to-leave-you-the-eurozone-crisis-and-popular-euroscepticism-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:24 +0000 http://arc.local/items/we-no-longer-love-you-but-we-dont-want-to-leave-you-the-eurozone-crisis-and-popular-euroscepticism-in-greece/ Continued]]> This article analyses whether and how public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in Greece has changed in the context of the current Eurozone crisis. It provides the first detailed treatment of how the crisis has affected citizens’ views in a traditionally pro-European member state. It examines whether public opinion has become more Eurosceptic and which societal groups have changed their views and in what direction. It uses data from Eurobarometer surveys conducted before and during the current crisis. Unsurprisingly, the findings show that negative sentiment towards the EU has increased across all social groups in recent years. However, we find a paradox of a decline in general support for the EU and an increase in support for the Euro. In a country seen as traditionally pro-European, Greek public opinion has fallen out of love with the EU, but it clearly does not want to leave the Eurozone or renounce membership altogether.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-maastricht-treaty-at-twenty-a-greco-european-tragedy/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-maastricht-treaty-at-twenty-a-greco-european-tragedy/ Continued]]> Since 2010, the financial crisis has raged across Europe, taking down governments of several members of the euro-zone in the process. Despite strong pressure for reform, and many meetings of heads of state, the problems are far from over. The crisis has been widely represented as a sovereign debt fiasco and a failure of fiscal policy by five peripheral member states (Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland). However, the real causes of the predicament of the euro-zone are more complex. A satisfactory understanding of the crisis is only possible if we distinguish among four phases: background factors, including structural flaws in the original design of the Maastricht Treaty; capital flows and fiscal deficits; dynamics of divergence, especially regarding competitiveness; and the crisis dynamics. In this contribution we identify three sets of factors — i.e., market spillovers and policy externalities, insufficient information related to the management of risk, and perverse incentives related to the configuration of rules and institutions — that may lead to inefficient international outcomes in the environment of structural interdependence and full capital mobility, address how policy coordination can improve the results, explain how the euro-zone crisis developed, and explore a number of possible solutions.

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