Crises in the Eurozone:
Causes, Conflicts, and Consequences
Roskilde University, Department for Society and Globalisation
27 November 2012
Building 25, 8:30 to 17:30
The current economic, political and social ruptures in the European Union are individual crises in EU Member States, as well as collective crises of the Eurozone. Similarly, the crises reflect changing dynamics within the European Union as well as changing dynamics characterizing the European Union and individual European countries’ position within the wider global economy.
This one day workshop examines the causes and consequences of the economic crises in the peripheral European Union Member States, through presentations by academics and activists from Spain, Ireland and Greece. The workshop seeks to understand similarities and differences in the three countries’ social, economic and political experience of crisis. The speakers will focus on their countries’ relationship with the Eurozone/EMU and interactions between Eurozone membership and the structural features of their national economies and their engagement in the international financial system. They will also discuss political consequences of economic crisis, such as party system change, successes for populist parties and government collapse, as well as the emergence of new or intensification of existing social conflicts or a legitimacy crisis of the European Union.
Below you'll find the presentations and slides from the workshop.
- Marica Frangakis - The public debt crisis in Greece and the European project. Slides here
- Jesus Casquete - Social mobilization and crisis: The outraged movement in Spain.
- Blanaid Clarke and Niamh Hardiman - Crisis in the Irish Banking System
- Monica Clua-Losada - The impact of the crisis in families and children in Spain
- Sebastian Dellepiane and Niamh Hardiman - Governing the Irish Economy: A triple Crisis
- Vassilis Monastiriotis - The Greek euro-crisis: Between Government Failure and Failed Government
- Andy Storey - One World: Why Irish Development Educators should court Controversy at Home
- Andy Storey - Comprador Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and the Irish Crisis
- Brigitte Young - Neoliberalism
- Brigitte Young - The Power of German Ordoliberals as Agenda Setters in the Euro Crisis
