Workshops & Papers

17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, 16-18 September 2011 at the C3-Center for International Development, Vienna / Austria, organised by the EuroMemo Group

The second day of the EuroMemo Group conference (Saturday, 17 September) was dedicated to key themes of EU policy within within five different workshops (Workshop Programme as pdf-file).:

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Workshop 1: Austerity Policies

Co-ordinator Marica Frangakis

• Tanja Cesen / Ministry of Labour, Ljubljana
  
European labour market policy in the times of recession

• Miren Etxezarreta / Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
  
Boom and (deep) crisis in the Spanish economy: the role of the EU in its evolution

• Peter Herrmann / University of Eastern Finland
  
Background Paper: Austerity policies - Yes, No, or Where to go with it?

• Janos Hoos / Corvinus University of Budapest
  
The options for solving the sovereign debt crisis in the cases of Greece, Portugal and Ireland and relevance implication of them for Hungary

• Joern Janssen / European Institute for Construction Labour Research
  
Institutional Provisions for an Equitable Distribution of the Social Product

• Maria Karamessini / Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
  
Sovereign debt crisis: An opportunity for completing the neo-liberal project and dismantling the Greek employment model

• Pia Ljungmann / School of African and Oriental Studies
  
Constructing the European ‘sovereign debt crisis’, hegemonising austerity. A narrative of European neoliberal governmentality

• Tamás Morva
  
Austerity Policy in Hungary and Specific Features of the Answer of the Government

• Ozgun Sarimehmet Duman / University of Sheffield
  
The EU’s Influence on the Labour Market Reform Process in Greece

• Engelbert Stockhammer / Kingston University
  
Peripheral Europe’s Debt and German Wages. The Role of Wage Policy in the Euro Area

• Janusz Tomidajewicz / Poznan University of Economics
Is the present politics of overcoming of crisis an source of next crisis in future

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Workshop 2: The Future of the Eurozone

Co-ordinator Trevor Evans

• Nicola Acocella / Sapienza University of Rome
  
The deflationary bias of exit strategies in the EMU countries

• Stefan Collignon and Piero Esposito / Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
  
Do current account balances matter for competitiveness in the Euro Area?

• Pieoro Esposito / Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies / (co-author with Antonio Paradiso and B. Bhaskara Rao)
  
The dynamics of selected Euro countries public debt: Alternative paths for fiscal consolidation

• John Grahl / Middlesex University
  
Revisions to the Stability Pact

• Rainer Lenz / University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
  
Get rid of banks and build up a modern financial world

• Dominique Plihon / Paris Nord University
  
The ECB and financial stability: necessary reforms

• Gabriel Sakellaridis / Nicos Poulantzas Institute / University of Athens
  
The nature of the causes of the peripheral Eurozone countries’ debt crisis (provisional title)

• Annamaria Simonazzi / La Sapienza University of Rome
  
Italy - still life

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Workshop 3: The EU and the World

Co-ordinator Werner Raza

• Anton Filipenko / Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv
  
Free Trade Area between Ukraine and EU: prerequisites and contradictions

• Jeremy Leaman / Loughborough University
  
The EU, Tax Justice and the Modernisation of Less Developed Countries

• Secil Pacaci Elitok / University of Hamburg & Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)
  Skill-biased migration policies of Germany: The case of Green Card and New Migration Act
  

• John Palmer / Federal Trust
  
Beyond EU Enlargement-Creating a United European Commonwealth

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Workshop 4: Energy, climate change and sustainability, after Fukushima

Co-ordinator Frieder Otto Wolf

• Josef Baum / Transform Austria / University of Vienna
  
Towards Implementation of "common but differentiated responsibility” within and beyond Europe

• Judith Dellheim / Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and Frieder O. Wolf / FU Berlin
  
Remarks on the Perspectives of the EuroMemo Group

• Yannis Doukas / University of Athens
  
The Political Economy of the decision making process within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy

• Antoine Godin / Università degli Studi di Pavia
  
Green Jobs for full employment, a Stock Flow Consistent analysis

• Colin Hines / Convener of the UK Green New Deal
  
A Green New Deal for Europe Requires a Green New Protectionism

• Pedro Varela Vazquez (co-authored with Maria del Carmen Sanchez Carreira) / University of Santiago de Compostela
  
European wind energy development policies

• Barbara Wieliczko / Institute for Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute
  
Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy - what can be changed to make it support the EU sustainable development?

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Workshop 5: Roots of the Crisis of European Integration

Co-ordinator Catherine Sifakis

• Joachim Becker / Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Johannes Jäger / Fachhochschule des bfi Wien
  
European Integration in Crisis: the Centre-Periphery Divide

• Hermann Bömer / TU Dortmund
  
Aspects of the Political Economy of the EU-Crises

• Ioannis Kompsopoulos / RWTH Aachen
  
More integration as the cause for popular disintegration

• Károly Lóránt
  
Financial disturbances in the European Union and its impact on the future of the euro

• Leon Podkaminer / Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and Kazimierz Laski / University of Linz
  
The basic paradigms of the EU economic policy-making need to be changed

• James Roberts / Brussels
  
Resolving the core-periphery features of the crisis: Assessment of the assumptions and contrast with the empirical reality

• Catherine Sifakis / CREG, Université Pierre Mendès
  
EU Institutional Framework and Eurozone Crisis

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Plenary Presentations on the State of the Union

• Birgit Mahnkopf / Berlin School of Economics and Law
  
The Political State of the Union

• Ozlem Onaran / University of Westminster
  
The Economic State of the Union

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Background Papers

• Örjan Appelqvist / University of Stockholm
  
Assuming confrontation to open possibilities: We won’t pay!

• Rosaria Rita Canale / University of Naples Parthenope
  
Default Risk and Fiscal Sustainability in PIIGS Countries

• Klaus Dräger
  
Sado-monetarism rules ok?! EU economic governance and its consequences

• Peter Herrmann / University of Eastern Finland
  
Austerity policies - Yes, No, or Where to go with it?

• Stuart Holland
  
Union Bonds, Eurobonds and a New Deal for Europe

• Janos Hoos / Corvinus University of Budapest
  
Vision

• Dany Lang / Center of Economics of Paris North, National Center for Scientific Research
  
It is time to change the economy, The manifest of the appalled economists for 2012

• Catherine Samary
  
The eastern periphery of the European Union faced with the global crisis

• Stefano Solari / University di Padova (co-author Gian Demetrio Marangoni)
  
The Making of the New European Periphery: The Evolving Capitalisms within the Monetary Union

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