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dc.contributor.author | Mendez, Fernando | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mendez, Mario | - |
dc.contributor.author | Triga, Vasiliki | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-07T16:15:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-07T16:15:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/27540 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In paving the way for the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the second Irish referendum of October 2009 brought to an end a constitutional saga that had occupied EU elites for the best part of a decade. The institutional crisis had been provoked by the two negative popular votes in France and the Netherlands on a major treaty reform, the Constitutional Treaty. The crisis was exacerbated when the Irish electorate delivered a “no” vote in 2008 on the carefully repackaged version of the failed Constitutional Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty. The respite from the European Union (EU) constitutional odyssey was short-lived, however. Within months of the entry into force of the new constitutional settlement the EU was plunged into a financial crisis that threatened the future of its flagship policy, the single currency. The new Lisbon institutional machinery had been operative for barely a few months when the financial crisis exposed the serious inadequacies of its institutional arrangements for economic governance. The ensuing euro clash exposed a new cleavage between creditor and debtor euro partners as well the potential for a growing divergence between euro members and non-euro member states. Greece was to be the first, and most dramatic, case in a series of emergency “bail-outs” for euro member states afflicted by the financial crisis. During the critical negotiations for its second emergency “bail-out”–one of the many peaks of the Eurozone crisis–the Greek Prime Minister unexpectedly announced that, in addition to a parliamentary vote of confidence, a referendum would be held to legitimate the painful terms and conditions of the bail-out. The … | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.title | Excerpt More information | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.collaboration | University of Zurich | en_US |
dc.collaboration | Queen Mary University of London | en_US |
dc.subject.category | Media and Communications | en_US |
dc.country | Switzerland | en_US |
dc.subject.field | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.identifier.url | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=1094649080129918444&hl=en&oi=scholarr | en |
cut.common.academicyear | 2014-2015 | en_US |
dc.identifier.external | Og_hYA4AAAAJ:7PzlFSSx8tAC | en |
item.fulltext | No Fulltext | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.grantfulltext | none | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.openairetype | article | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Department of Communication and Marketing | - |
crisitem.author.faculty | Faculty of Communication and Media Studies | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0001-6932-5389 | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Faculty of Communication and Media Studies | - |
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