Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I

Inside economic and political factors of the crisis

1 Britain: from outsider to inside-outsider and outsider again. Joining late, stepping out early

2 The crisis of the common currency, the euro

3 The tragicomedy of the Greek debt crisis

4 Dangerous demography: lack of reproduction

5 Suicidal enlargement of the European Union?

6 The state of transforming Eastern Europe

PART II

International factors and outside challenges

7 Malaise of modern capitalism: speculative crises, unemployment, and inequality

8 The Russian challenge: the EU’s security and energy independence

9 The immigration crisis and its explosive consequences

Conclusion: further integration or disintegration?

Index

About the Author

Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of History, University of California, USA. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the British Academy, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europea, and three other European Academy of Sciences and has published more than 30 books and 200 studies.

Reviews

'For those interested in the EU’s present and future, this timely book explores the multitude of crises circulating from a variety of economic, political and societal forces from both internal and external directions.' — Dr Mark Baimbridge, University of Bradford