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Europe and the Euro: Integration, Crisis and Policies

A Progressively Integrated European Community within the Global Economy The Integration Process in Europe: Widening and Deepening The Customs Union, Competition Policy and the Single Market The EU’s Budget and Its Evolution The EU Countries in the World Economy: A Comparative Perspective Notes The European Monetary Union and OCA Theories: A Common Currency Awaiting a Real Economic Union From the End of the Bretton Woods System to the Creation and Crisis of the European Monetary System The Convergence Criteria of the Maastricht Treaty and the European Monetary Union Optimal Currency Area Theories Institutional, Nominal and Real Convergence in the EU Empirical Evidence on Real Convergence/Divergence in the Eurozone and in the EU Notes Monetary Policy and the European Central Bank: A Progressive Divorce from the Bundesbank Legacy?The ECB and Its Governance Economic Features of the ECB: Independence and Conservatism Final Objectives and the Inflation Target Monetary Strategies and Instruments of Monetary Policy The ECB’s Activity and Performance since 1999: A Comparative Assessment Notes Fiscal Policies and the EU’s Governance: Only Rules and a Lack of Stabilisation Measures Monetary Unions and Rules on Public Budgets The Stability and Growth Pact and Its reforms Changes in Public Accounts and Debts after the Crises The New Stability and Growth Pact and the Fiscal Compact Austerity Policies in the Eurozone and Their Impact on Real Economies Notes The Double Crisis in the Eurozone: Recession, Stagnation and High Unemployment Global Imbalances, Financial Liberalisations and the Sub-Prime Crisis The Transmission to the Real Economies and the Great Recession Economic Policy Response in the World The Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Eurozone The Double Recession in the Eurozone and the Lack of Effective Demand The Impact of the Crises on (Un)employment, Especially Among the Young Notes The EU’s Policy Response: Too Little Too Late The European Union’s Uncertain and Delayed Response to the Sovereign Debt Crisis: Economic and Political Explanations The New ‘save-States’ Funds and the Role of the ‘troika’The Need for New Crisis Management Instruments and the Eurobond Proposals The ECB’s Unconventional Measures: ‘save the euro whatever it takes’Quantitative Easing and Targeted Operations to Fight Deflation and Sustain Recovery The Banking Union and the Need for a More Efficient Operation of the Credit Market Structural Policies: From the Lisbon Agenda to ‘Europe 2020’ and Beyond Notes The Need for Innovative Policies and Further Integration: A Real ‘Economic and Monetary’ Union Leading to a Future Political Union?Policies to Sustain Economic Growth and the Role of Aggregate Demand The Need to Sustain Private and Public Investments: Beyond the Juncker Plan Eurozone’s Budget and Finance Minister, and the Need for Radical Reforms in EU Governance Monetary Union, Economic Union and Political Union Notes

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Step 7: Integrate Science and Policy Aspects of Drought Management
An essential part of the policy and planning process is integrating the science and policy aspects of drought management. Policy makers' understanding of the scientific issues and technical constraints involved in addressing problems associated with drought is often limited. Likewise, scientists and...
(Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management, and Policy)
“Integrated” regional development policy and planning
DavidJ. A. Douglas Introduction Our purpose is to examine the presence of new regionalist approaches in a number of Canadian regions. To do so, we focus on one of the five subconcepts that underpin the conceptual framework: integrated development policies and practices (see Chapter 3)....
(The Theory, Practice, and Potential of Regional Development: The Case of Canada)
Integrated in development policy and planning: anote on roots and record
The concept of integration has been with us since the earliest days of development policy, and the implementation and management initiatives which we associate with planning. It has been reified beyond its adjectival or adverbial qualities as something of a standard for appropriate or good practice....
(The Theory, Practice, and Potential of Regional Development: The Case of Canada)
The Euro Area Crisis and Financial Fragmentation
The euro area crisis was a competitiveness crisis, a sovereign debt crisis and a banking crisis (3.2.1). Measures taken to prevent financial fragmentation avoided a larger collapse (3.2.2). A Competitiveness Crisis, a Sovereign Debt Crisis, a Banking Crisis The crisis in the euro area originated...
(Preparing for the Next Financial Crisis)
National Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe Since 1973
Jeroen Doomernik and María Bruquetas-Callejo Migration of workers and refugees has long been an integral part of the European continent's history. Nonetheless, Europe's appreciation of migration as a serious societal and governmental concern is relatively recent. Among the countries with a colonial...
(Integration Processes and Policies in Europe)
Integration Policies in North-Western Europe
Since postcolonial immigration was generally understood as a collective inheritance and to comprise members of the nation, most North-Western European countries did not develop policies for the integration of migrants from the colonies The UK, for instance, in 1965 created the Race Relations Act which...
(Integration Processes and Policies in Europe)
Integration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
The former Eastern Bloc countries still have relatively small numbers of migrants from third countries. Foreign-born residents are most prevalent in the Czech Republic at 3.8 %, whereas in Poland only 1.2 % is foreign-born (Vasileva 2011). For Hungary the figure is 4.4 %, but includes many ethnic Hungarians...
(Integration Processes and Policies in Europe)
Policy approaches within Europe
Germany Germany’s Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) (Law Improving Enforcement in Social Networks) was enacted in November 2017 and came into force in January 2018. It was introduced to the Bundestag by Heiki Maas, the minister of justice, and is largely based on hate speech...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)
THE INTEGRAL ENERGY FIELD OF CENTRAL EUROPE
For Marko Pogacnik, moreover, the vast field of energy and consciousness in the centre of Europe, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, was ruthlessly divided into two separate parts by what is called the "Iron Curtain". This harsh division has suppressed the role of the Centre, or what he...
(Integral polity, integrating nature, СЃulture, society and economy)
RE-CREATING THE INTEGRITY OF CENTRAL EUROPE
In the final analysis then, Marko Pogacnik sees in the work of Central Europeans such as Rudolph Steiner (Austrian), Vaclav Havel (Czech) and the late president of Slovenia Janez Drnovsek a profound attempt to re-establish the ethical-moral core of Europe. Through such there is a need to transform the...
(Integral polity, integrating nature, СЃulture, society and economy)