The Delphic Oracle on Europe: Is There a Future for the European Union?

The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways forward for the European Union in a time of global crisis and profound change. Contributors debate the institutional and political consequences of the Lisbon Treaty, the reform of economic governance in light of the economic and financial crisis, and Europe's global role in a rapidly changing international and regional environment.

The volume is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the Union's institutions and the question of leadership in an EU27+. Part II concentrates on the key elements of a new international socio-economic consensus. And Part III discusses the stakes in the agonising search for the EU's global role in a post-Lisbon and post-crisis world. A substantial concluding chapter pulls the themes of the volume together and looks to the future.

The list of contributors includes a number of leading thinkers and policy-makers: Josep Borrell Fontelles, Jonas Condomines Beraud, Olaf Cramme, Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Dieter Helm, Philippe Herzog, Jolyon Howorth, Zaki Laidi, Roger Liddle, Pier Carlo Padoan, Andre Sapir, and Loukas Tsoukalis.

Loukas Tsoukalis is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, and Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission. He is member of advisory councils of several European think tanks and international journals, as well as author of many books and articles on European and international affairs, including The New European Economy and What Kind of Europe? (OUP 2003) which was translated into several European languages.

Janis A. Emmanouilidis is a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. He has published widely on the European Union's overall political and institutional development, the perspectives of differentiated integration in an EU 27+, the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, and on EU enlargement. He has been an advisor of various governments, EU institutions, European parties and NGOs on a broad range of issues related to European integration and has commentated widely on EU affairs in the media.