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This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 eco

Hit by the European financial and economic crisis in 2008, several Member States of the European Monetary Union (EMU) were unable to refinance their public debt

This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the consequences of restrictive austerity policies and the downsizing of the welfare state this edited col

During the past four years, the countries of the European periphery – the so-called PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) – have been experienc

A tension between (richer) contributing Member States and (poorer) recipient Member States has always characterised the history of the budget of the European Un