each other, it is often claimed that the EU fiscal framework, by reducing the budgetary room for manoeuvre and the … empirical evidence supporting this argument. In a sample of EU-15 countries over the past three decades, the introduction of the …

banking crisis. Other EU countries, above all France, were indirectly affected by this crisis, and some eastern European … countries are also endangered. Although the EU has tried to contain the euro crisis with extensive rescue operations that have … switch that will shift the forces of growth back from the periphery to the center, although the EU rescue measures counteract …