The Crisis behind the Eurocrisis: The Eurocrisis as a Multidimensional Systemic Crisis of the EU

The Crisis behind the Euro-Crisis encourages dialogue among scholars across the social sciences in an attempt to challenge the narrative that regarded the Euro-crisis as an exceptional event. It is suggested instead that the Euro-crisis, along with the subsequent crises the EU has come to face, was merely symptomatic of deeper systemic cracks. This book's aim is to uncover that hidden systemic crisis - the 'crisis behind the Euro-crisis'. Under this reading it emerges that what needs to be questioned is not only the allegedly purely economic character of the Euro-crisis, but, more fundamentally, its very classification as an 'emergency'. Instead, the Euro-crisis needs to be regarded as expressive of a chronic, dysfunctional, but 'normal' condition of the EU. By following this line of analysis, this book illuminates not only the causes of contemporary turbulences in the European project, but perhaps the 'true' nature of the EU itself.

Eva Nanopoulos is a Lecturer in Law and Academic Coordinator for the B.A./LL.B. in Law and Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and teaching interests are in EU law, international law, human rights, constitutional law and critical legal theory. She is co-director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (QMUL) and currently completing a monograph on the Juridification of Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law (forthcoming).

Fotis Vergis is Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester School of Law, where he teaches EU Law and Labour Law. His research interests include EU Law and constitutional theory, labour law theory and collective labour law. During his Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge he was awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship for 2013–14 and 2014–15. He is a member of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and the Industrial Law Society (ILS). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Greek Labour Law Review and the Scientific Committee of the 'Labour Paradigm' Network of Progressive Labour Law Scholars. He is also a member of the Thessaloniki Bar, now as a non-practising barrister.