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The European Union stumbles from crisis to crisis. It is in need of a fundamental overhaul, while the geostrategic context is changing rapidly. Sixty year ago, the Treaty of Rome promised peace among European nations, freedom from Soviet domination and prosperity for citizens. While the promise was kept, it has become doubtful that it can be sustained.

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    See Stefan Collignon, Piero Esposito and Hanna Lierse: European Sovereign Bailouts, Political Risk and the Economic Consequences of Mrs. Merkel , in: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy Vol. 4, No. 2 (2013).

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Collignon, S. (2017). Introduction. In: Collignon, S. (eds) The Governance of European Public Goods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64012-9_1

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