The European Crisis and Global Economy Dynamics: Continental Enlargement versus Atlantic Opening

Authors

  • António Mendonça University of Lisbon, Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies, School of Economics and Management, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1405543M

Keywords:

Economic crisis, Euro crisis, Economic integration, Globalization, Community of Portuguese speaking countries

Abstract

The fundamental idea we discuss in this paper is that the failure of Europe to deal with the international crisis is due, first and foremost, to the deepening of a more specific crisis that affected the very process of European integration and developed through two main channels: one, broader, linked to the erosion of the original driving forces underpinning integration in Europe; another, more circumscribed, linked to the malfunctioning of the euro as an internal adjustment mechanism of the currency zone. To deal with these structural dimensions of the crisis, we put forward a model of a Global Europe against the model of Continental Europe that has dominated the integration process until now and in this alternative framework we discuss the potential role of Portugal and of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries.

Key words: Economic crisis, Euro crisis, Economic integration, Globalization, Community of Portuguese speaking countries.
JEL: F15, F40, F50.

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Published

2014-10-10

How to Cite

Mendonça, A. (2014). The European Crisis and Global Economy Dynamics: Continental Enlargement versus Atlantic Opening. Panoeconomicus, 61(5), 543–569. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1405543M

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