Overview
- Dissects the EU’s many vulnerabilities and suggests workable solutions
- Innovative and creative in pursuing “out of the box” solutions
- Makes academic analysis directly applicable to major policy questions
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About this book
This book calls upon us to rethink and reboot the European Union. The authors dissect the EU’s many vulnerabilities: how some Member States are backsliding on the rule of law, freedom of the press, and control of corruption – and how globalization’s ‘discontents’ are threatening the liberal international order. It examines the need for a common immigration policy; the need to rethink the unsustainable debt overhang of some Eurozone countries; and the need to use education to foster a European identity.
Given the sum total of these vulnerabilities, the book argues, the EU may not survive beyond 2025 in its present form – that is, unless decisive action is taken. In turn, the book puts forward a number of workable solutions: a European economic model to secure full employment; a stronger European Court of Human Rights to counter systemic violations; a points-based immigration policy; clear exit options for the Eurozone; and an Open Education Area with a common second language. These solutions may reduce the number of EU countries, but would increase cohesion and overall survivability.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jo Ritzen is a professorial fellow in the International Economics of Science, Technology and Higher Education at UNU-MERIT and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.
He is a former Minister of Education, Culture, and Science of the Netherlands, served in the Dutch Cabinet at the Maastricht Treaty, a former Vice President of the World Bank and former President of Maastricht University.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Second Chance for Europe
Book Subtitle: Economic, Political and Legal Perspectives of the European Union
Editors: Jo Ritzen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57723-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57722-7Published: 30 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86233-0Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57723-4Published: 18 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Integration, European Union Politics, Economic Policy, Labor Economics, Population Economics, European Law