This new edition of the Lisbon conference aims to bring together large numbers of researchers, policy makers for a review of the Lisbon Strategy, and a debate on the economic crisis and the prospects or a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The conference will cover areas of applied...

The financial crisis and subsequent recession have sharply exacerbated divergences and tensions in the Euro area and in the EU as a whole. The Greek economy is in deep crisis and several other European states face similar pressures. The policies of the EU and the stronger members states are...

The global economic crisis has now entered what is arguably its third phase. Following the acute financial crisis of September 2008 and the ensuing economic depression, we are now experiencing the debt crisis stage where whole nations face the threat of bankruptcy (with Greece currently at the...