Fault Lines in European Integration. A Political-Economy Perspective on Financialization, Economic Governance and Right-Wing Extremism

Abstract

One decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers heralded the economic and financial crisis that would keep the world in suspense and provide the initial spark for a range of processes of economic restructuring, the project of European integration finds itself confronted with a variety of problems that impede the realization of policy cohesion on the European level. The panel therefore seeks to analyse the current fault lines in the European integration process in its multidimensionality and presents different theoretical, socioeconomic, and political economy approaches to uncover the challenges the European Union faces today. These include the rise of extreme right-wing parties across the EU, deepening processes of financialization on the institutional level and in the housing sector, as well as economic governance processes that rearrange welfare state alignments. The papers in this panel address these issues from an international political economy and policy related approach to show how these dimensions are facets of this process.

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