The European debt crisis : the Greek case /
Costas Simitis ; translated from the Greek by P. Douzina-Stiakaki ; revised by Ewan Munro.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- European Policy Research Unit series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the Greek case. He investigates its spillover from a Greek-specific problem to a Eurozone-wide crisis and chronicles the policy responses to combat it. His central argument is that the main cause of the Eurozone's problems was, and still remains, the indecisiveness of European elites to tackle its underlying deficiencies. Leading Eurozone countries have been unwilling to commit to a common long-term plan which could deal convincingly with complex and inter-related problems affecting both its 'core' and its 'periphery'.
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Debts, Public--Greece. Financial crises--Greece. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.