The euro area debt crisis had only been partially overcome, due to failures of some Member States in the implementation of their recovery programmes, excessively restrictive fiscal requirements, mostly imposed by Germany on the indebted economies;
Janusz Józef Węc is Professor of Humanities in recent world history, international relations and European studies. He is also Head of the Chair of Studies on Integration Processes at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Jean Monnet Chair Professor, and a member of the ‘Team Europe’ Network. He is also the author of over 300 scientific publications published in Poland and abroad, including 22 monographs and syntheses. He held research stays in universities of Bonn, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Salzburg, Berlin, Bremen and Nijmegen.