Report on the State of the European Union

1. Introduction: From Crisis to Sustainability
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Part I. Is Governance Sustainable?

2. The Democratic Paradox of the EU
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

3. The State of EU Economic Governance: Not Learning from Previous Mistakes?
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Part II. Is the State Sustainable?

4. Taxation in the EU: Fiercer Competition?
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

5. Public Debts: Sustainability at Any Cost?
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

6. The European Budget: Seven Years of Stillness?
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Part III. Is Inequality Sustainable?

7. Domestic Inequality in the European Union
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

8. Inequality between Countries: An Ever More Heterogeneous Union?
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Part IV. Is the Environment Sustainable?

9. The EU as a Global Ecological Leader
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

10. Energy and Climate Policy on the Road to Paris 2015
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

11. The EU “Beyond GDP”
Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Keywords: Economics, International Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Policy, Political Economy