Report on the State of the European Union

1. Europe’s Economic Problem Is Political After All!
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Jacques Cacheux

2. Globalization and the Twin Protections
Jean-Paul Fitoussi

3. Euro Area Policies and Macro Economic Performance, Ten Years On: Institutions, Incentives and Strategies
Jérôme Creel, Éloi Laurent, Jacques Cacheux

4. Peer Pressure and Fiscal Rules
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Francesco Saraceno

5. The ECB’s Quiet Hijacking of the Euro Area’s Exchange Rate
Jérôme Creel, Éloi Laurent, Jacques Cacheux

6. The Irish Tiger and the German Frog: A Tale of Size and Growth in the Euro Area
Éloi Laurent, Jacques Cacheux

7. Funding the EU Budget with a Genuine Own Resource: The Case for a European Tax
Jacques Cacheux

8. The EU Environmental Strategy
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Éloi Laurent, Jacques Cacheux

9. If It’s Broken, Don’t Fix It: The Government of the Euro Area in the EU “Reform Treaty”
Éloi Laurent

Keywords: Economics, International Economics, Regional/Spatial Science