Europe in Crisis

Leila Simona Talani is Professor (Chair) of International Political Economy in the European and International Studies Department at King's College London, UK. She was appointed Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy in 2012. Previously she held the position of Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo, Egypt, working on illegal migration from the Middle East and North Africa to EU countries. She is the author of The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Dirty Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), European Political Economy (2013), Globalisation, Migration, and the Future of Europe (2011), and From Egypt to Europe (2010), among other titles.

Introduction.- Part 1: The Structural Dimension.- 1. The Euro-zone Crisis: Between the Global Financial Crisis and the Structural Imbalances of the EMU; Leila Simona Talani.- 2. EMU and Structural Reform; Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres.- 3. Wage Imbalances in the European Labour Market; Stefan Collignon.- 4. The Institutional Architecture of EU Financial Regulation: The Case of the European Supervisory Authorities in the Aftermath of the European Crisis; Gianni Lo Schiavo and Alexander Turk.- Part 2: A View from the Periphery.- 5. Class and Politics in the Greek Debt Crisis; Vassilis K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas.- 6. Assessing the Italian Experience in the Euro-zone; Leila Simona Talani.- 7. The Pros and Cons of 'de facto' Polish Opting-out of the EMU; Serena Giusti and Lucia Tajoli.- 8. Conclusion: Out of the Present European Crisis: Questions and Alternatives; Pascal Petit.