The EU's Multiple Cores and the CEEs: a Threat or an Opportunity?

• Autorzy: Christian Schweiger
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone has caused a fundamental shift in the EU's internal power balance with Germany, the strongest political and economic player, essentially determining the political response to the crisis. The establishment and implementation of more effi cient mechanisms to ensure fi scal responsibility amongst the eurozone members and the aspiring ones led to the emergence of complex diff erentiated multiple cores of integration, i.e. the Euro-17, Euro Plus and a detached periphery. The CEE countries are represented in all three of the emerging cores. This puts them at the heart of the emerging political division of the EU, thus generating several challenges and opportunities to their broadly understood political and economic security. The objective of this chapter is to explore these issues. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Economic integration; Economic integration with the EU countries; Economic and political integration of Europe; Eurozone; Economic crisis

PL

Integracja gospodarcza; Integracja gospodarcza państw z UE; Integracja gospodarcza i polityczna Europy; Strefa euro; Kryzys gospodarczy

• Czasopismo: Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
• Rocznik: 2013
• Numer: R. 11, z. 5
• Strony: 27--46

Twórcy

autor

Christian Schweiger

• School of Government and International Aff airs, Durham University, United Kingdom

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