Panel Discussion: The EU in Crisis

Utl.: Effects in different policy areas =

Wien (OTS) - European integration is in a time of crisis: The
breakdown of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a
banking and sovereign debt crisis that turned into an economic and
political crisis that not only, but particularly, affected the EU -
which in parallel also encountered unforeseen problems in its near
neighborhood and transatlantic relations. This has a profound impact
on different EU policies. The Institute for European Integration
Research has therefore initiated a major collaborative project
comparing the effects of the euro crisis, in a wide sense, on the
EU’s various policy domains, including financial market integration,
health, migration, research, energy, foreign and state aid policies.
The panel will present the main findings of the project as well as
related research by international scholars, and will debate major
aspects from an interdisciplinary angle: What is the crisis’ effect
on EU decision-making? Can heightened functional pressures have a
facilitating effect and open up "joint-decision traps"? In other
words, can the governments find consensus more easily under time
pressure and looming disaster? Has the crisis impacted the most
central EU policies and, if so, in constraining or enabling ways?
Additionally, how much has solidarity been affected in times of
crisis?

The EU in Crisis: Effects in different policy areas

 Panel statements: 
 
 Brigid Laffan (European University Institute, Florence): 
 Public finance in Europe in the shadow of the crisis
 
 Michelle Knodt (Technical University of Darmstadt): 
 Solidarity in the EU
 
 Zdenek Kudrna (Institute for European Integration Research,
 University of Vienna): 
 Financial market regulation - source of and solution to crucial
 challenges?
 
 Gerda Falkner (Institute for European Integration Research,
 University of Vienna): 
 Comparing policies with regards to the crisis
 
 Discussant: Robert Rebhahn (Faculty of Law, University of Vienna)

 Datum:   26.1.2015, 17:00 - 19:00 Uhr
 Ort:     Campus der Universität Wien
          Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien
 Url:     http://eif.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/index.php

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