European integration and the crisis: practice and theory

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 155-176

  Ioannou, Demosthenes ^a   Leblond, Patrick ^b   Niemann, Arne ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Banking union; Economic and Monetary Union; euro area; European integration; European Union; financial and economic crisis; fiscal union; integration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924492143     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2014.994979     Document Type: Editorial

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