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on the EU’s financial and fiscal crisis. Those interested in the future of
Europe will find in Longo and Murray’s piece food for thought.
– Professor Carlos Closa, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
This short book is an informed and thoughtful diagnosis of the EU’s
current predicament. With extreme clarity, Longo and Murray recon-
struct factual developments, review intellectual debates and outline the
possible paths to recovery. I fully subscribe to their well-argued and
passionate call for a more responsible and farsighted political leadership,
capable of responding to the EU’s alarming legitimacy and effectiveness
crisis.
– Professor Maurizio Ferrera, University of Milan, Italy
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Europe’s Legitimacy
Crisis: From Causes to
Solutions
Michael Longo
Associate Professor, College of Law and Justice,
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
and
Philomena Murray
Professor and Jean Monnet Chair ad Personam,
School of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Melbourne, Australia
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To my parents, Francesco and Antonina Longo
– Michael Longo
In memory of my parents, Ted and Phyllis Murray. Go raibh
míle maith agaibh
– Philomena Murray
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Contents
Preface vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1
Part I Narrating the Past 13
1 The EU Has Been Shaped by Crisis:
Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold 14
2 The Search for Leadership and a
Convincing Narrative 35
3 The Sources of the Crisis in Europe 53
Part II Seeking a Future 79
4 Contesting Europe’s Past and Imagining
Europe’s Future: Do Identity and
Participation Matter? 80
5 Problems in Search of a Solution,
Solutions in Search of Legitimacy 101
Bibliography 131
A Guide to Further Reading and Useful Websites 144
Index 146
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Preface
This short book began as a series of discussions regarding
the EU’s legitimacy crisis over the past few years. It builds
on an article entitled ‘No “Ode to Joy”: The European
Union’s Legitimacy Crisis’ that we published in the jour-
nal International Politics, wherein we examined recent
referendums on the EU as a marker of the wider malaise
afflicting the EU. This book was written on the invitation
of Guy Edwards, Palgrave Macmillan’s Senior Publishing
Editor for Politics and International Relations journals,
to develop the ideas in that article into a Palgrave Pivot.
We wish to thank Palgrave Macmillan for this invitation.
We are grateful to Sara Crowley-Vigneau, Commissioning
Editor for Politics, and Jemima Warren, Editorial
Assistant, for their support for this project. We are grateful
to the anonymous reviewer for constructive feedback and
suggestions regarding our proposal.
We would like to thank the members of the College of
Law and Justice at Victoria University and the School of
Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne
for their collegial support.
We extend our deepest thanks to our families for their
patience and support during our research collaboration
over many years and especially during the writing of this
book.
1 Michael Longo is grateful for the opportunity to take Special Studies
Program leave in the second half of 2014 for the writing of this book.
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List of Abbreviations
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
CJEU Court of Justice of the European Union
CT Constitutional Treaty
EC European Community
ECB European Central Bank
ECJ European Court of Justice
EEC European Economic Community
EMU Economic and Monetary Union
EP European Parliament
EU European Union
GFC Global Financial Crisis
IMF International Monetary Fund
MEP Member of the European Parliament
NGO Nongovernmental Organisation
OMT Outright Monetary Transactions
QE Quantitative Easing
SEA Single European Act
SGP Stability and Growth Pact
SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
TEU Treaty on European Union (‘Maastricht Treaty’)
TFEU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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Introduction
Abstract: This chapter establishes our claim that Europe’s
legitimacy crisis comprises a crisis of vision, of belonging,
of leadership and of governance. It argues that resolving the
crisis is made more difficult by an accumulation of unresolved
problems over some decades. This crisis of many elements
defies a simple, one-dimensional solution.
Longo, Michael and Philomena Murray. Europe’s
Legitimacy Crisis: From Causes to Solutions.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
doi: 10.1057/9781137436542.0004.
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