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Europe without the EU?

01 May 2009

This policy brief conducts a simple but daring exercise in counterfactual history by discussing the hypothetical consequences of the crisis for Europe in the absence of the EU

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Filippo L. Calciano

Paolo Paesani

Gustavo Piga
  • Crisis
  • EU Institutions
  • Eurozone

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