Saving Europe : how national politics nearly destroyed the euro /

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Author / Creator: Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Other Peoples Eyes
  • 1. The Origin of Mistrust
  • 2. The Secrets behind the Banks
  • 3. Europe's Awkward Ambitions to Change the World
  • 4. Too Different for One Policy
  • 5. First Doubts about the Euro
  • 6. The American Crisis Becomes the European Crisis
  • 7. The European Central Bank's First Rescue of the States
  • 8. Karlsruhe, Ruling the World from the Province
  • 9. The Well-Known Secret of the Greek Tragedy
  • 10. Let Greece Default?
  • 11. Bringing the Euro to the Brink, in Order to Save It
  • 12. Sell Your Islands
  • 13. Contagion
  • 14. Dr. Faust Saves the Euro
  • 15. From a New Complacency to the Irish Crisis
  • 16. A Sophisticated Way to Commit Suicide
  • 17. A Fateful Fight between the ECB and the Heads of Governments
  • 18. The Crisis Reaches Italy and Spain
  • 19. Berlusconis Moral Hazard and the German Waterboarding Strategy
  • 20. Solution or Dissolution: Political Union or the End of the Euro
  • Epilogue: Toward the Political Union
  • Notes
  • Index